Fabrication of advanced Bragg gratings with complex apodization profiles by use of the polarization control method

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3513-3522

  Deyerl, Hans Jürgen ^a   Plougmann, Nikolai ^a   Jensen, Jesper Bo ^a   Floreani, Filip ^a   Sørensen, Henrik Rokkjær ^a   Kristensen, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE SHIFT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (FBG); POLARIZATION CONTROL; SPECTRAL RESPONSES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 3042586811     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003513     Document Type: Article

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