Few-mode fiber with inverse-parabolic gradedindex profile for transmission of OAM-carrying modes

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 18044-18055

  Ung, B ^a   Vaity, P ^a   Wang, L ^a   Messaddeq, Y ^a   Rusch, L A ^a   Larochelle, S ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DESIGN RULES; FEW-MODE FIBERS; FIBER PARAMETERS; GRADED INDEX; LARGE EFFECTIVE; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ROBUST TRANSMISSION; VECTOR MODE;

FIBERS;

EID: 84905382769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.018044     Document Type: Article

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