Non-monotonous refractive index changes recorded in a phosphate glass optical fibre using 248nm, 500fs laser radiation

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-127

  Sozzi, Michele ^a,b   Rahman, Aashia ^a   Pissadakis, Stavros ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE REFRACTIVE-INDEX CHANGE; ENERGY DENSITY; IRRADIATED GLASS; MICROHARDNESS MEASUREMENT; PEAK INTENSITY; PHASE MASK INTERFEROMETERS; PHOSPHATE GLASS; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; SIDE-POLISHED FIBRE; TYPE IIA PHOTOSENSITIVITY; VOLUME DILATION;

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LASER RADIATION; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; GLASS; MICROHARDNESS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84862117376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000121     Document Type: Article

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