Thermal sensitivity of tellurite and germanate optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8857-8863

  Li, Hongxia ^a   Lousteau, Joris ^b   MacPherson, William N ^a   Jiang, Xin ^b   Bookey, Henry T ^a   Barton, James S ^a   Jha, Animesh ^b   Kar, Ajoy K ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; GLASS; SILICA; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WAVELENGTH;

FABRY-PEROT CAVITIES; OPTICAL PHASE; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS; THERMOOPTIC COEFFICIENTS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34547152737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008857     Document Type: Article

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