The effect of periodicity on the defect modes of large mode area microstructured fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18631-18645

  Flanagan, Joanne C ^b   Amezcua, R ^c   Poletti, F ^a   Hayes, J R ^a   Broderick, N G R ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ADDITIONAL MODE; BAND GAP EFFECTS; FIBER GEOMETRIES; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; LARGE MODE AREA; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; PERIODIC VARIATION; PHOTONIC BANDGAP EFFECT;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56149106012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018631     Document Type: Article

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