Applying optical design methods to the development of application specific photonic crystal fibres

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8550, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Berghmans, Francis ^a   Geernaert, Thomas ^a   Napierała, Marek ^a,b,c   Baghdasaryan, Tigran ^a   Sonnenfeld, Camille ^a   Sulejmani, Sanne ^a   Nasiłowski, Tomasz ^c,d   Mergo, Paweł ^e   Martynkien, Tadeusz ^b   Urbańczyk, Wacław ^b   Bereś Pawlik, Elzbieta ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c InPhoTech Ltd   (Poland)

^d MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Design; Fibre amplifier; Fibre bragg grating; Fibre laser; Fibre sensor; Modelling; Photonic crystal fibre

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS; FIBRE SENSORS; MANUFACTURING IMPERFECTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBRE; OPTICAL FIBRE SENSING; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TEMPERATURE-INSENSITIVE;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DESIGN; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATLAB; MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84877886944     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.999353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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