Bend performance-enhanced photonic crystal fibers with anisotropic numerical aperture

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8532-8548

  Ward, Benjamin G ^a  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BIREFRINGENT PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES; MODE DISCRIMINATION; NUMERICAL APERTURE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODES; STRESS APPLYING PARTS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 45249117425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008532     Document Type: Article

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