Inscription of fiber bragg grating arrays in pure silica suspended core fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1453-1455

  Becker, Martin ^a   Fernandes, Luis ^b   Rothhardt, Manfred ^a   Brückner, Sven ^a   Schuster, Kay ^a   Kobelke, Jens ^a   Frazão, Orlando ^b   Bartelt, Hartmut ^a   Marques, Paulo V S ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); Optical fibers; Photosensitivity; Two beam interferometry

Indexed keywords

CONFINEMENT FACTOR; DEEP UV; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FIBER BRAGG GRATING (FBG); FIBER BRAGG GRATING ARRAY; FIBER SENSING; GUIDED MODES; MODE FIELDS; PURE SILICA; TWO-BEAM INTERFERENCE; TWO-BEAM INTERFEROMETRY;

FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; HYDROGEN; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SILICA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 70349602196     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2028309     Document Type: Article

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