Low-loss polarization-maintaining fusion splicing of single-mode fibers and hollow-core photonic crystal fibers, relevant for monolithic fiber laser pulse compression

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9986-9995

  Kristensen, Jesper Toft ^a   Houmann, Andreas ^a   Liu, Xiaomin ^a   Turchinovich, Dmitry ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DEFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER PULSES; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FUSION SPLICING; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PM FIBERS; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING SINGLE MODE FIBERS; RETURN LOSS; SPLICE LOSS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 46249093637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009986     Document Type: Article

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