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Vol. 11, Issue 9, 1592 (2023)

Accurate mode purity measurement of ring core fibers with large mode numbers from the intensity distribution only

Zekun Shi, Baiwei Mao, Zhi Wang, and Yan-ge Liu^*

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Institute of Modern Optics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

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Zekun Shi, Baiwei Mao, Zhi Wang, Yan-ge Liu. Accurate mode purity measurement of ring core fibers with large mode numbers from the intensity distribution only[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(9): 1592 Copy Citation Text

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