Abstract
Geometrical irregularities can severely restrict use of some microstructure fibers. A systematic perturbative method is demonstrated against full calculations, and allows efficient loss and effective-index estimates for large statistical samples of geometrical irregularities.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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