Role of the 1D optical filamentation process in the writing of first order fiber Bragg gratings with femtosecond pulses at 800nm [Invited]

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 832-844

  Bernier, Martin ^a   Gagnon, Stephan ^a   Vallée, Réal ^a  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAMENTATION; FIRST ORDER; INFRARED PULSE; PLASMA EMISSION; PLASMA-INDUCED; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; TYPICAL SAMPLES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 84862209104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000832     Document Type: Article

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