Tunable dual-core liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers for dispersion compensation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4443-4451

  Yu, Chin Ping ^a   Liou, Jia Hong ^a   Huang, Sheng Shuo ^a   Chang, Hung Chun ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVELENGTH;

DISPERSION VALUES; TUNABLE PROPERTIES;

FIBERS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS;

EID: 41649087151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004443     Document Type: Article

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