Improving the performance of fiber gratings with sinusoidal chirps

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2181-2187

  Zhang, Lin ^a   Yang, Changxi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT REFLECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SINUSOIDAL CHIRPS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0041882029     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002181     Document Type: Article

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