A dense array of small coupled waveguides in fiber technology: Trefoil channels of microstructured optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20648-20655

  Apetrei, Alin Marian ^a   Huy, Minh Châu Phan ^a   Belabas, Nadia ^a   Levenson, Juan Ariel ^a   Moison, Jean Marie ^a   Dudley, John M ^b   Mélin, Gilles ^c   Fleureau, Anne ^c   Galkovsky, Laurence ^c   Lempereur, Simon ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c Draka Comteq France SAS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

AIR HOLES; COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; DENSE ARRAYS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FIBER WAVEGUIDES; IN-FIBER; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349098679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020648     Document Type: Article

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