High reliability tin-codoped germanosilicate fibre Bragg gratings fabricated by direct writing method

Electronics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 1772-1773

  Imamura, K ^a   Nakai, T ^a   Sudo, Y ^a   Imada, Y ^a  

^a Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

DIRECT WRITING METHOD;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0032480169     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19981146     Document Type: Article

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