Narrow-depressed cladding fiber design for minimization of cladding mode losses in azimuthally asymmetric fiber bragg gratings

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 902-908

  Haggans, Charles W ^a,b   Singh, Harmeet ^a,b   Varner, Wayne F ^b   Wang, Jau Sheng ^b  

^a OSA ^*  (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bragg scattering; Gratings; Optical fiber cladding; Optical fiber filters; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS;

OPTICAL FIBER CLADDING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0032072947     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.669037     Document Type: Article

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