Bend performance-enhanced photonic crystal fibers with anisotropic numerical aperture

An error was made in converting the units of bend radius within the computer program used to obtain the reported results. This caused the calculated values of the bending induced stress to be significantly smaller than their true value. Corrected results for stress within the fiber and bend losses are reported. Since bending-induced stresses cause a relatively small correction to the refractive index profile, these corrections result in no changes in the main conclusions of this work.

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