Bend insensitive multimode fibers with extreme bend loss tolerance and high bandwidth

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8368, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Donlagic, Denis ^a   Lenardic, Borut ^b   Rehman, Saeed ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Optacore doo   (Slovenia)

^c Fibertronix AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; BEND LOSS; CONSTRAINED SPACE; FIBER BEND; FIBER CABLES; FIBER SYSTEMS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INSTALLATION RELIABILITY; MACRO-BEND LOSS; MULTIMODE FIBER SYSTEMS; ROBUST CONNECTIVITIES; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

FIBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 84874722339     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.921407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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