Radiation sensitivity of Bragg gratings written with femtosecond IR lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7316, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Grobnic, Dan ^a   Henschel, Henning ^b   Hoeffgen, Stefan K ^b   Kuhnhenn, Jochen ^b   Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Weinand, Udo ^b  

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

^b FRAUNHOFER INT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annealing; Femtosecond laser; Fiber Bragg gratings; Gamma radiation; Hydrogen loading; Optical fiber sensors; Radiation effects; Type I and type II gratings

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASER; GAMMA RADIATION; HYDROGEN LOADING; OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; TYPE I AND TYPE II GRATINGS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; GAMMA RAYS; HYDROGEN; LASERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SENSORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 69749119781     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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