Direct characterization of the spatial effective refractive index profile in Bragg gratings

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2685-2687

  Zhang, Zhaowei ^a   Tian, Chun ^a   Roelens, Michaël A F ^a   Mokhtar, Mohd R ^a,b   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Richardson, David J ^a   Ibsen, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); Impulse response; Optical devices; Spatial characterization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CURRENT-INDUCED PHASE SHIFT; DISCRETE PHASE; PULSE RESPONSE METHOD; SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION; SPATIAL INDEX MODULATION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 29244489523     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.859527     Document Type: Article

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