Synthesis of fiber Bragg grating parameters from experimental reflectivity: A simplex approach and its application to the determination of temperature-dependent properties

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 493-497

  Lhommé, Frédéric ^a   Caucheteur, Christophe ^a   Chah, Karima ^a   Blondel, Michel ^a   Mégret, Patrice ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CONVERGENCE TOOLS; GRATING PARAMETERS; THERMO-OPTIC COEFFICIENT; TOLERANCE FUNCTION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 13444254126     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000493     Document Type: Article

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