Mode resolved bend loss in few-mode optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3170-3181

  Schulze, Christian ^a   Lorenz, Adrian ^b   Flamm, Daniel ^a   Hartung, Alexander ^b   Schröter, Siegmund ^b   Bartelt, Hartmut ^b   Duparré, Michael ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY;

BEND LOSS; BENT FIBER; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; CORRELATION FILTERS; FEW-MODE FIBERS; MODAL DECOMPOSITION; OPTICAL POWER; PROPAGATING MODE; STEP-INDEX FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG MODULUS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84874059960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003170     Document Type: Article

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