Impact of transversal defects on confinement loss of an all-solid 2-D photonic-bandgap fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3589-3596

  Pureur, Vincent ^a   Bouwmans, Géraud ^a   Perrin, Mathias ^b   Quiquempois, Yves ^a   Douay, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Modeling; Optical fiber losses; Periodic structures; Random noise

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; GERMANIUM; INCLUSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LOSSES; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

PHOTONIC-BANDGAP FIBER; RANDOM NOISE; TRANSVERSAL DEFECTS;

PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

EID: 37249067611     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.907741     Document Type: Article

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