Structural long period gratings made by drilling micro-holes in photonic crystal fibers with a femtosecond infrared laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5496-5503

  Liu, Shujing ^a   Jin, Long ^a   Jin, Wei ^a   Wang, Dongning ^a   Liao, Changrui ^a   Wang, Ying ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; LASER CLADDING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; RESONANCE;

DRILLING HOLES; FEMTOSECONDS; FIBER GEOMETRIES; FIELD PROFILE; GRATING LENGTH; INFRARED LASER; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; MICRO HOLES; MODE THEORY; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; RESONANCE STRENGTHS;

HOLEY FIBERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77949650665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005496     Document Type: Article

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