Ultra-flattened and low dispersion in engineered microfibers with highly efficient nonlinearity reduction

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15229-15235

  Guo, Wei ^a   Kou, Jun Long ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Lu, Yan Qing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

AIR SLOT; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FIBER DEVICES; HIGH-SPEED; MICRO-FIBER; MICROFIBERS; NANO SCALE; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEARITY REDUCTION; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; TELECOM APPLICATIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 79961073173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015229     Document Type: Article

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