Guiding and thermal properties of a hybrid polymer-infused photonic crystal fiber

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 929-941

  Markos, Christos ^a,b   Vlachos, Kyriakos ^a   Kakarantzas, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b THEORETICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR HOLES; CONFINEMENT LOSS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; FIBER DEVICES; GUIDING PROPERTIES; HOLE SIZE; HYBRID POLYMERS; NUMERICAL APERTURE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

MICROCHANNELS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SILICA;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84866746833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000929     Document Type: Article

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