Design and analysis of large-effective-Area heterogeneous trench-Assisted multi-core fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15157-15170

  Tu, Jiajing ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a   Takenaga, Katsuhiro ^b   Matsuo, Shoichiro ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJIKURA LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

BENDING RADIUS; CALCULATING METHODS; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; HIGH DENSITY; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREAS; MULTI CORE; OVERLAP INTEGRALS;

CHEMICAL BONDS;

EID: 84863746600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015157     Document Type: Article

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