Complete measurement of fiber modal content by wavefront analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4074-4084

  Paurisse, Mathieu ^a   Lévèque, Louis ^a   Hanna, Marc ^a   Druon, Frédéric ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

GUIDED MODES; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; LATERAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY; RELATIVE PHASE; WAVEFRONT ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION; WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENT;

WAVEFRONTS;

EID: 84857260201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004074     Document Type: Article

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