Bragg grating inscription in various optical fibers with femtosecond infrared lasers and a phase mask

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 754-765

  Mihailov, Stephen J ^a   Grobnic, Dan ^a   Smelser, Christopher W ^a   Lu, Ping ^a   Walker, Robert B ^a   Ding, Huimin ^a  

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECONDS; GRATING FABRICATION; GRATING STRUCTURES; HIGH-POWER; INFRARED SOURCE; NEW APPLICATIONS; PHASE MASKS; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST LASER TECHNIQUE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FIBERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 84856895828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000754     Document Type: Article

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