Spectral characteristics and thermal evolution of long-period gratings in photonic crystal fibers fabricated with a near-IR radiation femtosecond laser using point-by-point inscription

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2105-2114

  Allsop, Thomas ^a   Kalli, Kyriacos ^b   Zhou, Kaiming ^a   Smith, Graham N ^a   Komodromos, Michael ^c   Petrovic, Jovana ^d,e   Webb, David J ^a   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^c FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^e Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND INSCRIPTION; LASER PROPAGATION; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; NEAR-IR; POST-FABRICATION; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMALLY INDUCED STRAIN;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 80052308092     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.28.002105     Document Type: Article

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