Bragg gratings made with ultrafast radiation in non-silica glasses; fluoride, phosphate, borosilicate and chalcogenide Bragg gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6796, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Borosilicate; Bragg grating; Chalcogenide; Femtosecond; Fluoride; Glass; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

BOROSILICATE GLASS; CHALCOGENIDES; FUSED SILICA; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOSPHATES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHALCOGENIDE BRAGG GRATINGS; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 43149106513     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.778897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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