Optical fibre long period gratings with a photochromic Overlayer

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1288, Issue , 2010, Pages 55-58

  Konstantaki, Maria ^a   Pissadakis, Stavros ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical switching; Long period gratings; Photochromism; Spiropyran.

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651068329     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3521370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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