Guiding and birefringent properties of a hybrid PDMS/silica photonic crystal fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7914, Issue , 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b THEORETICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

all fiber device; hybrid fiber; photonic crystal fiber; polymer; temperature sensor; tunable birefringence

Indexed keywords

ALL-FIBER DEVICES; CUT-OFF; EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE; HYBRID FIBER; INDEX GUIDING; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; PDMS ELASTOMER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDANCE; TOTAL LENGTH; TUNABLE BIREFRINGENCE;

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ELASTOMERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 79955876229     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.874158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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