Investigation of tuning characteristics of electrically tunable long-period gratings with a precise four-layer model

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2954-2962

  Chen, Qin ^a   Lee, Jonathan ^a   Lin, Minren ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Yin, Stuart ^a   Zhang, Qimimg ^a   Reichard, Karl M ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic devices; Electrooptic polymers; High index overlay; Long period fiber gratings; Nanocomposite; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber filters

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TUNING;

ELECTROOPTIC POLYMERS; HIGH INDEX OVERLAY; LONG-PERIOD FIBER GRATINGS;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33746877846     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.876091     Document Type: Article

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