Guiding properties of silica/air hollow-core Bragg fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1877-1884

  Foroni, Matteo ^a   Passaro, Davide ^a   Poli, Federica ^a   Cucinotta, Annamaria ^a   Selleri, Stefano ^a   Lægsgaard, Jesper ^b   Bjarklev, Anders O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Air guiding; Bragg fiber; Fiber sensor; Hollow core fiber; Surface mode

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; CLADDING (COATING); DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

AIR GUIDING; AIR LAYERS; AIR-HOLES; ANTI-CROSSING; BRAGG FIBER; BRAGG FIBERS; CONFINEMENT LOSS; DISPERSION CURVES; DNA BIOSENSOR; FIBER CLADDINGS; FIBER SENSOR; FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FEM; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; GUIDED MODES; GUIDING PROPERTIES; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; HOLLOW-CORE FIBER; LAYER THICKNESSES; LOSS PROPERTIES; LOSS REDUCTION; NANOSUPPORTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; SPECTRAL SHIFTING; SURFACE MODE; SURFACE MODES;

FIBERS;

EID: 52149118939     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.913692     Document Type: Article

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