Design of three-spatial-mode ring-core fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1337-1343

  Kasahara, Motoki ^a   Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Sakamoto, Taiji ^b   Hanzawa, Nobutomo ^b   Matsui, Takashi ^b   Tsujikawa, Kyozo ^b   Yamamoto, Fumihiko ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

difference of the effective index; Differential mode delay; effective area; few mode fiber; finite element method; mode division multiplexing; ring core fiber

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL MODE DELAYS; EFFECTIVE AREA; EFFECTIVE INDEX; FEW-MODE FIBERS; MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RING-CORE;

DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MULTIPLEXING;

FIBERS;

EID: 84897695950     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2304732     Document Type: Article

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