Bragg Gratings Written in All-SiO2 and Ge-Doped Core Fibers with 800-nm Femtosecond Radiation and a Phase Mask

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-100

  Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Smelser, Christopher W ^a   Grobnic, Dan ^a   Walker, Robert B ^a   Lu, Ping ^a   Ding, Huimin ^a   Unruh, James ^b  

^a Department of Optoelectronic Technologies   (Canada)

^b PHOTRONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond direct writing; Fiber Bragg grating; Phase mask; Ultrafast laser processing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GERMANIUM; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; SILICA; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FEMTOSECOND DIRECT WRITING; FIBER BRAGG GRATING; PHASE MASK; ULTRAFAST LASER PROCESSING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 1442360877     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.822169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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