Design of few-mode fibers with arbitrary and flattened differential mode delay

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 438-441

  Ferreira, Filipe ^a,b   Fonseca, Daniel ^a,b   Silva, Henrique ^c  

^a Siemens Networks S A Dl research   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Differential mode delay; few mode fibers; refractive index profile

Indexed keywords

C+L BANDS; DESIGN RULES; DIFFERENTIAL MODE DELAYS; FEW-MODE FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICS;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 84873619228     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2241047     Document Type: Article

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