Single-mode tellurite glass holey fiber with extremely large mode area for infrared nonlinear applications

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13651-13656

  Feng, Xian ^a   Loh, Wei H ^a   Flanagan, Joanne C ^a   Camerlingo, Angela ^a   Dasgupta, Sonali ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Horak, Peter ^a   Frampton, Ken E ^a   White, Nicholas M ^a   Price, Jonathan H V ^a   Rutt, Harvey N ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLEY FIBERS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

LARGE MODE AREA; NONLINEAR APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; PROPAGATION LOSS; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE-MODE GUIDANCE; SUPER CONTINUUM; TELLURITE GLASS;

TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

GLASS; TELLURIUM; TELLUROUS ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; GLASS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TELLURIUM;

EID: 51149090366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013651     Document Type: Article

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