Bending loss and thermo-optic effect of a hybrid PDMS/silica photonic crystal fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 24344-24351

  Markos, Christos ^a,b   Vlachos, Kyriakos ^b   Kakarantzas, George ^a  

^a THEORETICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; MICROCHANNELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

BEND DIAMETER; BEND-INDUCED LOSS; BENDING LOSS; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GUIDING MODE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PDMS ELASTOMER; POWER RECOVERY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 78149460976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024344     Document Type: Article

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