Influence of fiber orientation on femtosecond bragg grating inscription in pure silica microstructured optical fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 1832-1834

  Baghdasaryan, Tigran ^a   Geernaert, Thomas ^a   Becker, Martin ^b   Schuster, Kay ^b   Bartelt, Hartmut ^b   Makara, Mariusz ^c   Mergo, Paweł ^c   Berghmans, Francis ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); microstructured optical fibers (MOFs)

Indexed keywords

FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND UV LASERS; FEMTOSECONDS; FIBER ORIENTATIONS; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; INTERNAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; PURE SILICA; TALBOT INTERFEROMETER; TRANSVERSE COUPLING;

BIREFRINGENCE; FIBERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LAMINATES; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; SILICA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 81455139834     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2170060     Document Type: Article

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