Holographic recording of Bragg gratings for wavelength division multiplexing in doped and partially polymerized poly(methyl methacrylate)

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-37

  Beyer, Oliver ^a   Nee, Ingo ^a   Havermeyer, Frank ^a   Buse, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL RECORDING; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0037258393     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000030     Document Type: Article

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