Statistics of crosstalk in bent multicore fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 15122-15129

  Fini, John M ^a   Zhu, Benyuan ^a   Taunay, Thierry F ^a   Yan, Man F ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; SPINNING (FIBERS);

COUPLED MODE EQUATION; FIBER LENGTH; FIBER SEGMENTS; MULTICORE FIBER; STATISTICAL THEORY;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 84886953284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015122     Document Type: Article

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