Microchanneled chirped fiber Bragg grating formed by femtosecond laser-aided chemical etching for refractive index and temperature measurements

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 1609-1611

  Fu, Hongyan ^a,b,c   Zhou, Kaiming ^c   Saffari, Pouneh ^c   Mou, Chengbo ^c   Zhang, Lin ^c   He, Sailing ^a,b   Bennion, Ian ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Femtosecond (fs) laser; Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); Fiber sensors; Microchannel; Refractive index (RI) sensor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ETCHING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT REFRACTION; MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BIO-CHEMICAL SENSORS; CHEMICAL ETCHING; CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; EFFECTIVE INDEX; EXTERNAL-; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (FBGS); FIBER SENSORS; MICROCHANNEL; REFRACTIVE INDEX (RI) SENSOR; TEMPERATURE CHANGING; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION BANDS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 52149100829     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2002727     Document Type: Article

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