Thermal regeneration of fiber Bragg gratings in photosensitive fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12523-12531

  Lindner, Eric ^a   Chojetzki, Christoph ^b   Bruckner, Sven ^a   Becker, Martin ^a   Rothhardt, Manfred ^a   Bartelt, Hartmut ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; COLOR CENTERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SENSORS; NANOSECOND LASER PULSE; PHOTOSENSITIVE FIBERS; REGENERATIVE PROCESS; TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE STABILITY; TEMPERATURE STABLE; THERMAL REGENERATION;

FIBERS;

EID: 67749113457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012523     Document Type: Article

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