Design of a highly-birefringent microstructured photonic crystal fiber for pressure monitoring

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 25657-25664

  Jewart, Charles M ^a   Mejía Quintero, Sully ^b   Braga, Arthur M B ^b   Chen, Kevin P ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DESIGN; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PRESSURE SENSORS;

AIR HOLES; CHEMICAL-ETCHING PROCESS; FIBER CORES; INTRINSIC BIREFRINGENCE; MATRIX; MICROSTRUCTURED; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; PRESSURE MONITORING; PRESSURE SENSING; PROPAGATION MODE; RESPONSIVITY; SINGLE MODE PROPAGATION;

HOLEY FIBERS;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; MANOMETRY; PRESSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MANOMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 78650053662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025657     Document Type: Article

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