Characterization of the growths of UV-induced birefringence in effective mode index and index modulation in fiber Bragg gratings

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2337-2339

  Lu, Ping ^a   Waddy, David S ^a   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Ding, Huimin ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Polarizarion mode dispersion (PMD); Polarization dependent loss (PDL)

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL); POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD);

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 27744504700     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.857980     Document Type: Article

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