Impact of fiber outer boundaries on leaky mode losses in leakage channel fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 24039-24048

  Gu, Guancheng ^a   Kong, Fanting ^a   Hawkins, Thomas W ^a   Foy, Paul ^c   Wei, Kanxian ^b   Samson, Bryce ^b   Dong, Liang ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NUFERN   (United States)

^c THORLABS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES;

BOUNDARY SHAPES; DOUBLE CLAD FIBERS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; INFINITE CLADDING; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; LEAKAGE CHANNELS; MEASUREMENTS OF;

FIBERS;

EID: 84885450499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024039     Document Type: Article

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