Design, fabrication and validation of an OAM fiber supporting 36 states

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 26117-26127

  Brunet, Charles ^a   Vaity, Pravin ^a   Messaddeq, Younès ^a   LaRochelle, Sophie ^a   Rusch, Leslie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; INDEX PROFILE; MCVD PROCESS; MODE EXCITATION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

DESIGN;

GLASS FIBER;

CALIBRATION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; OPTICS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84908179588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.026117     Document Type: Article

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