Optical fibre long period grating spectral actuators utilizing ferrofluids as outclading overlayers

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Konstantaki, Maria ^a   Candiani, Alessandro ^b   Pissadakis, Stavros ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ferrofluids; Long period gratings; Magnetic sensors; Optical fibres; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; MAGNETIC SENSORS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; FUNCTIONALISATION; INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; TUNABLE FILTERS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 79953196526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2011.11007     Document Type: Article

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