Fabrication and characterization of bandpass filters based on concatenated chirped fiber gratings

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1424-1432

  Sugden, K ^b,c,d   Zhang, L ^b,e,f   Williams, J A R ^b,g,h   Fallon, R W ^b,i,j   Everall, L A ^b,c   Chisholm, K E ^b,c,k   Bennion, I ^a,b,l,m  

^a IEEE

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e SUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h Inst Elec and Electron Engineers   (Singapore)

ⁱ DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^k HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^l Plessey Research Caswell   (United Kingdom)

^m OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Bandpass filters; Broadband; Chirped gratings; Fiber Bragg gratings; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; BANDPASS FILTERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHIRPED GRATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 0031210669     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.618374     Document Type: Article

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