Demonstration of a waveguide regime for a silica hollow - Core microstructured optical fiber with a negative curvature of the core boundary in the spectral region > 3.5 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1441-1448

  Pryamikov, Andrey D ^a   Biriukov, Alexander S ^a   Kosolapov, Alexey F ^a   Plotnichenko, Victor G ^a   Semjonov, Sergei L ^a   Dianov, Evgeny M ^a  

^a FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLADDING (COATING); MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

CLADDING MATERIAL; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; MATERIAL LOSS; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; NEGATIVE CURVATURE; SILICA CAPILLARY; SPECTRAL RANGE; SPECTRAL REGION;

SILICA;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 78751516332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001441     Document Type: Article

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