An inline core-cladding intermodal interferometer using a photonic crystal fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 3933-3939

  Bock, Wojtek J ^a   Eftimov, Tinko A ^b   Mikulic, Predrag ^a   Chen, Jiahua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Fiber optic strain and pressure sensors; Intermodal interference; Mach Zender interferometers; Photonic crystal fibers; Polarization dependent loss (PDL)

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; CLADDING MODES; EXTERNAL REFRACTIVE INDICES; IN-LINE; INTERMODAL DISPERSION; INTERMODAL INTERFERENCE; MACH-ZENDER INTERFEROMETERS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL); SINGLE-MODE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

COMPOSITE BRIDGES; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; PRESSURE SENSORS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 69249187833     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2021282     Document Type: Article

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