Adiabatically-tapered fiber mode multiplexers

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 608-617

  Yerolatsitis, S ^a   Gris Sanchez I ^a   Birks, T A ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE DIAMETERS; FIBER MODE; FLUORINE-DOPED; MULTI-MODE CORE; SEPARATE DEVICES; SILICA CAPILLARY; SINGLE MODE; TELECOM FIBERS;

MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SEPARATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84892656042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000608     Document Type: Article

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