Thermal annealing of fiber bragg gratings directly inscribed by an ultrafast infrared laser

2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 2188-2190

  Martinez, Amós ^a   Khrushchev, Igor ^a   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; THERMAL EFFECTS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRAFAST INFRARED LASERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 30944436735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2005.202412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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