Slow light with flat or offset band edges in few-mode fiber with two gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17954-17959

  Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Handmer, C J ^b   De Sterke, C Martijn ^b   Steel, M J ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

BAND EDGE CURVATURE; LONG-PERIOD GRATING; MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549064803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017954     Document Type: Article

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