Spectral behavior in thinned long period gratings: Effects of fiber diameter on refractive index sensitivity

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 2007, Pages 6945-6952

  Iadicicco, Agostino ^a   Campopiano, Stefania ^a   Giordano, Michele ^b   Cusano, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CLADDING MODES; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS (LPG);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 38149095008     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006945     Document Type: Article

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