Analysis of fiber Bragg gratings by a side-diffraction interference technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 890-896

  El Diasty, Fouad ^a,b   Heaney, Alan ^a   Erdogan, Turan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0000109719     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000890     Document Type: Article

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