Low bend loss in tightly-bent fibers through adiabatic bend transitions

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2962-2967

  Yao, Lei ^a,b   Birks, T A ^a   Knight, J C ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS;

ADIABATIC BEND; ADIABATIC TRANSITIONS; BENT FIBER; CLADDING MODES; CORE MODES; COUPLING CHARACTERISTIC; GUIDED MODES; PHYSICAL PROCESS;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60549098816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002962     Document Type: Article

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