• DocumentCode
    689244
  • Title

    Minimising group index variations in a multicore endoscope fibre

  • Author

    Roper, J.C. ; Yerolatsitis, S. ; Birks, T.A. ; Mangan, Brian J. ; Dunsby, Christopher ; French, Paul M. W. ; Knight, Jonathan C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We describe a multicore endoscope fibre with minimised group index variation between cores that is obtained at a V parameter of 3. Tapering the fibre input enables us to achieve single-mode propagation.
  • Keywords
    biomedical optical imaging; endoscopes; optical fibres; fibre input tapering; group index variation; multicore endoscope fibre; single-mode propagation; Endoscopes; Fiber nonlinear optics; Indexes; Multicore processing; Optical fibers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833627