Analysis of thermal decay and prediction of operational lifetime for a type I boron-germanium codoped Fiber Bragg grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2188-2197

  Pal, Suchandan ^a,b   Mandal, Jharna ^a   Sun, Tong ^a   Grattan, Kenneth T ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; GERMANIUM; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

THERMAL DECAY;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 0042679507     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002188     Document Type: Article

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