Large mode area silicon microstructured fiber with robust dual mode guidance

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18076-18082

  Healy, N ^a   Sparks, J R ^b   Petrovich, M N ^a   Sazio, P J A ^a   Badding, J V ^b   Peacock, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICA; SILICON;

AIR-SILICA STRUCTURES; CORE-CLADDING INDEX; GUIDING PROPERTIES; INDEX GUIDING; LARGE MODE AREA; MATERIALS DEPOSITION; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; SILICON FIBERS;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON;

EID: 70349660236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018076     Document Type: Article

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