Direct writing of fiber bragg grating in microstructured polymer optical fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1148-1150

  Stefani, Alessio ^a   Stecher, Matthias ^b   Town, Graham E ^c   Bang, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating; laser direct writing; microstructured fiber; polymer optical fiber

Indexed keywords

DIRECT WRITING; FOURTH-ORDER; LASER DIRECT WRITING; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURED POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS (MPOF); WRITING BEAMS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYMERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84861829362     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2197194     Document Type: Article

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