Tailoring dispersion and confinement losses of photonic crystal fibers using hybrid cladding

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1909-1914

  Razzak, S M Abdur ^a,b   Namihira, Yoshinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Confinement loss; Effective area; Finite difference method; Flattened dispersion; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF)

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER OPTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POWDERS; WASTEWATER;

CONFINEMENT LOSS; CONFINEMENT LOSSES; EFFECTIVE AREA; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLATTENED DISPERSION; GUIDING PROPERTIES; PERFECTLY MATCHED; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; RING-HYBRID; ULTRAFLATTENED DISPERSION; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 52149107374     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.922323     Document Type: Article

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