Influence of numerical aperture on mode coupling in step-index plastic optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 29, 2004, Pages 5542-5546

  Savović, Svetislav ^a   Djordjevich, Alexandar ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EXTRAPOLATION; FIBER OPTICS; LASER BEAMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POWER GENERATION;

COUPLING COEFFICIENTS; EQUILIBRIUM MODE DISTRIBUTION (EMD); PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS (POF); STEADY-STATE DISTRIBUTION (SSD);

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 7544243355     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005542     Document Type: Article

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