Broadband guidance in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber with polymer-filled cladding

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 2003-2006

  Markos, Christos ^a   Antonopoulos, Grigorios ^a   Kakarantzas, George ^a  

^a THEORETICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Optical fiber devices; optical polymers

Indexed keywords

FIBER CLADDINGS; GUIDED MODES; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; OPTICAL POLYMERS; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

FILLED POLYMERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84884828529     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2280817     Document Type: Article

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