Highly-efficient coupling of linearly- And radially-polarized femtosecond pulses in hollowcore photonic band-gap fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18630-18637

  Ishaaya, Amiel A ^a   Hensley, Christopher J ^b   Shim, Bonggu ^a,b   Schrauth, Samuel ^b   Koch, Karl W ^c   Gaeta, Alexander L ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c Coming Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ENERGY GAP; FIBERS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; LASER PULSES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; POLARIZATION; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AZIMUTHALLY POLARIZED MODES; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENT COUPLING; HOLLOW CORE-PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; LINEARLY POLARIZED; POLARIZATION STATE; RADIALLY POLARIZED; TOTAL TRANSMISSION;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 70350290498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018630     Document Type: Article

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