Fiber Bragg gratings inscribed using 800nm femtosecond laser and a phase mask in singleand multi–core mid–IR glass fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7540-7548

  Suo, Rui ^a   Lousteau, Joris ^b   Li, Hongxia ^c   Jiang, Xin ^b   Zhou, Kaiming ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Mac Pherson, William N ^c   Bookey, Henry T ^c   Barton, James S ^c   Kar, Ajoy K ^c   Jha, Animesh ^b   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GLASS; LASERS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; GLASS FIBERS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; GERMANATE GLASS; PEAK POWER; PHASE MASK TECHNIQUE; PHASE MASKS; TELLURITE FIBER; TELLURITE GLASS FIBER; TEMPERATURE RESPONSIVITY;

FIBERS;

EID: 66549099160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007540     Document Type: Article

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