Isochronal annealing of Bragg gratings written in H2-loaded or in UV-hypersensitized germanophosphosilicate planar waveguides: A comparison

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6777-6790

  Beugin, Vincent ^a   Niay, Pierre ^a   Douay, Marc ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CURVE FITTING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ISOCHRONAL ANNEALING; ISOTHERMAL DECAY; LOADED WAVEGUIDES; MASTER CURVES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 24944574042     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006777     Document Type: Article

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