Improved efficiency Bragg grating inscription in a commercial solid core microstructured optical fiber

Proceedings of 2007 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 217-220

  Violakis, Georgios ^a,b   Pissadakis, Stavros ^b  

^a IEEE

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bragg gratings; Fused silica photosensitivity; Microstructured and photonic crystal fibres

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; EXCIMER LASERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; GAS LASERS; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

ENERGY DENSITIES; EXCIMER LASER RADIATIONS; GRATING FORMATIONS; INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUES; MICROSTRUCTURED AND PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES; MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBRES; PHASE MASKS; SOLID CORES; THERMAL ANNEALING;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 45149117213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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