Modeling the tapering effects of fabricated photonic crystal fibers and tailoring birefringence, dispersion, and supercontinuum generation properties

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 31, 2009, Pages

  Roy, Sourabh ^a   Mondai, Kajal ^a   Chaudhuri, Partha Roy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

ARBITRARY STRUCTURES; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; EVANESCENT FIELD SENSOR; FIBER CROSS SECTION; HIGH BIREFRINGENCE; MODAL CHARACTERISTICS; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; STACKING STRUCTURES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 70449638422     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.00G106     Document Type: Article

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