Accelerated recording of negative index gratings in Ge-doped optical fibers using 248-nm 500-fs laser radiation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1182-1184

  Violakis, Georgios ^a   Konstantaki, Maria ^a   Pissadakis, Stavros ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gratings; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber materials; Optical fiber measure applications; Optical fibers

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DENSITY; EVOLUTION CURVE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FS LASER; GRATINGS; NEGATIVE INDEX; NONMONOTONIC; OPTICAL FIBER FILTERS; OPTICAL FIBER MATERIALS; THERMAL STABILITY; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TYPE IIA;

AIR FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; EXCIMER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; GAS LASERS; GERMANIUM; LASER RADIATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RECORDING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 33747495426     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.874731     Document Type: Article

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