Highly birefringent microstructured fibers with enhanced sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 15113-15121

  Martynkien, Tadeusz ^a   Statkiewicz Barabach, Gabriela ^a   Olszewski, Jacek ^a   Wojcik, Jan ^b   Mergo, Pawet ^b   Geernaert, Thomas ^c   Sonnenfeld, Camille ^c   Anuszkiewicz, Alicja ^a   Szczurowski, Marcin K ^a   Tarnowski, Karol ^a   Makara, Mariusz ^b   Skorupski, Krzysztof ^b   Klimek, Jacek ^b   Poturaj, Krzysztof ^b   Urbanczyk, Waclaw ^a   Nasilowski, Tomasz ^c   Berghmans, Francis ^c   Thienpont, Hugo ^c  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; POLARIMETERS;

ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; LOW SENSITIVITY; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; POLARIMETRIC SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY TO HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE;

FIBERS;

EID: 84886952862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015113     Document Type: Article

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