Influence of cladding-mode coupling losses on the spectrum of a linearly chirped multi-channel fiber bragg grating

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1281-1290

  Li, Hongpu ^a   Nakamura, Yuusaka ^a   Ogusu, Kazuhiko ^a   Sheng, Yunlong ^b   Rothenberg, Joshua E ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTICS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; CLADDING-MODE COUPLING; MULTI-CHANNEL FIBER BRAGG GRATING; PHOTOSENSITIVE FIBERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 14744300506     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001281     Document Type: Article

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