Quadratic behavior of fiber Bragg grating temperature coefficients

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2744-2751

  Flockhart, Gordon M H ^a,b   Maier, Robert R J ^a   Barton, James S ^a   MacPherson, William N ^a   Jones, Julian D C ^a   Chisholm, Karen E ^c,d   Zhang, Lin ^c   Bennion, Ian ^c   Read, Ian ^e   Foote, Peter D ^e  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Indigo Photonics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; INTERFEROMETRY; STRAIN; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

GRATING WAVELENGTH; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; QUADRATIC BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 2442432520     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002744     Document Type: Article

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