Modeling of holey fiber tapers with selective transmission for sensor applications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4319-4328

  Minkovich, Vladimir P ^a   Monzón Hernández, David ^a   Villatoro, Joel ^b   Sotsky, Alexander B ^c   Sotskaya, Luidmila I ^d  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c Mogilev State University   (Belarus)

^d Mogilevskij Tekhnologicheskij Inst   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Holey fiber (HF); Interferometry; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber interferometer; Optical fiber sensors

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

HOLEY FIBER; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 37849185110     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.884207     Document Type: Article

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