Overcoming the Challenges of Splicing Dissimilar Diameter Solid-Core and Hollow-Core Photonic Band Gap Fibers
- 1 January 2013
- conference paper
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
- p. W3.26
Abstract
The application of a novel splice technique for bonding solid core and hollow core microstructure fibers of dissimilar diameters, with low loss, is discussed and results of mechanical and optical performance presented.Keywords
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