Fringe generation with non-uniformly coated long-period fiber gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9326-9340

  Del Villar, Ignacio ^a   Arregui, Francisco J ^a,b   Matias, Ignacio R ^a   Cusano, Andrea ^a   Paladino, Domenico ^b   Cutolo, Antonello ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; MICROMACHINING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AZIMUTHAL SYMMETRY; FRINGES; PHASE-SHIFT EFFECTS; SELF-ASSEMBLING TECHNIQUE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 34547451814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009326     Document Type: Article

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