Progress in silica optical fibre photosensitivity

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 1997, Pages 543-556

  Douay, Marc ^a   Xié, Wen Xiang ^a   Leconte, Bruno ^a   Taunay, Thierry ^a   Bernage, Pascal ^a   Niay, Pierre ^a   Cordier, Patrick ^b   Bayon, Jean François ^c   Poignant, Hubert ^c   Delevaque, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Diffraction grating; Doping; Germanium; Hydrogenation; Laser radiation; Optical fibre; Photosensibility; Preform; Radiation exposure; Refractive index; Silica; State of the art

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345250136     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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