Improved bending property of half-filled photonic crystal fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12197-12202

  Wang, Yiping ^a,b,c   Tan, Xiaoling ^a   Jin, Wei ^a   Liu, Shujing ^a   Ying, Diqing ^a   Hoo, Yeuk Lai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

AIR HOLES; BENDING PROPERTIES; FIBER ORIENTATIONS; FLUID-FILLED; HALF-FILLING; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77953559723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012197     Document Type: Article

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