Bragg gratings made with a femtosecond laser in heavily doped Er-Yb phosphate glass fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 943-945

  Grobnic, Dan ^a   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Walker, Robert B ^a   Smelser, Christopher W ^a   Lafond, Christophe ^a   Croteau, André ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bragg gratings; Fiber lasers; Phosphate glass; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; FIBER LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; INFRARED RADIATION; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PHOSPHATE GLASS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 34249949547     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.898816     Document Type: Article

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