Cross-correlated (C2) imaging of fiber and waveguide modes

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13008-13019

  Schimpf, D N ^a   Barankov, R A ^a   Ramachandran, S ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GROUP DELAY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CROSS CORRELATIONS; FEMTOSECONDS; FIBER MODE; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; LOW-COHERENCE; MODE DISCRIMINATION; MULTIMODES; TIME-SCALES; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICS;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959872085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013008     Document Type: Article

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