Splicing Ge-doped photonic crystal fibers using commercial fusion splicer with default discharge parameters

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7258-7263

  Wang, Yiping ^a,b   Bartelt, Hartmut ^a   Brueckner, Sven ^a   Kobelke, Jens ^a   Rothhardt, Manfred ^a   Mörl, Klaus ^a   Ecke, Wolfgang ^a   Willsch, Reinhardt ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL LOSSES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFLECTION;

COMMERCIAL FUSION SPLICER; DEFAULT DISCHARGE PARAMETERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 43849108578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007258     Document Type: Article

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