Suppression of discrete cladding mode resonances in fibre slanted Bragg gratings for gain equalisation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1388-1394

  Kerrinckx, Emmanuel ^a   Hidayat, Arif ^a   Niay, Pierre ^a   Quiquempois, Yves ^a   Douay, Marc ^a   Riant, Isabelle ^b   De Barros, Carlos ^c  

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

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Avanex Centre de Villarceaux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FIBER LASERS; GAIN CONTROL; LIGHT MODULATION;

DISCRETE CLADDING MODE RESONANCES; GAIN EQUALIZATION; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33144487506     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001388     Document Type: Article

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