Sensitivity of photonic crystal fiber modes to temperature, strain and external refractive index

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9645-9653

  Chen, Gkun ^a   Laronche, Albane ^a   Bouwmans, Géraud ^b   Bigot, Laurent ^b   Quiquempois, Yves ^b   Albert, Jacques ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; RESONANCE; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

CONVENTIONAL SINGLE-MODE FIBERS; EXTERNAL REFRACTIVE INDICES; MULTIPARAMETERS; NARROW BANDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSITIVITY; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; SENSOR APPLICATIONS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GERMANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; GERMANIUM; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 46149123883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009645     Document Type: Article

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