Multiple mode conversion and beam shaping with superimposed long period gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 402-412

  Sumetsky, M ^a   Ramachandran, S ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM SHAPING; MULTIPLE MODE CONVERSION; OPTICAL FIBER MODES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 38049146264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000402     Document Type: Article

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