Femtosecond IR laser inscription of Bragg gratings in single- and multimode fluoride fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2686-2688

  Grobnic, Dan ^a   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Smelser, Christopher W ^a  

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bragg gratings; Fluoride fiber; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FLUORIDE FIBERS; LASER INSCRIPTION; PHASE MASK; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33845778039     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887777     Document Type: Article

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