High birefringence photonic crystal fiber with a complex unit cell of asymmetric elliptical air hole cladding

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5276-5281

  Sun, Yuh Sien ^a   Chau, Yuan Fong ^a   Yeh, Han Hsuan ^a   Shen, Lin Fang ^b   Yang, Tzong Jer ^c   Tsai, Din Ping ^d  

^a CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ELLIPTICAL AIR HOLE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (EHPCF); STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 35448992047     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005276     Document Type: Article

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