Tapered few-mode fibers: Mode evolution during fabrication and adiabaticity

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-307

  Petcu Colan, Alex ^a,b   Frawley, Mary ^a,b   Chormaic, Sile Nic ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

higher modes; optical manipulation; Optical nanofibers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857556552     PISSN: 02188635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218863511006170     Document Type: Article

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