Measurement of effective refractive-index differences in a few-mode fiber by axial fiber stretching

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 18646-18651

  Savolainen, Juha Matti ^a   Grüner Nielsen, Lars ^b   Kristensen, Poul ^b   Balling, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b OFS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COUPLED MODE; RELATIVE STRENGTH; STRAIGHTFORWARD TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84865594396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018646     Document Type: Article

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