Response of in-fiber Bragg gratings to hydrogen loading and subsequent heat treatment in H2 ambience

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 5800-5807

  Lanin, Alexey V ^a   Butov, Oleg V ^a   Golant, Konstantin M ^a,b  

^a FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^b Business Unitech LLC   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DATA ACQUISITION; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROGEN;

HYDROGEN LOADING; IN-FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; THERMAL DECAY DYNAMICS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33749852140     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005800     Document Type: Article

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