Fabrication of multiple Bragg gratings in microstructured polymer fibers using a phase mask with several diffraction orders

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8521-8534

  Statkiewicz Barabach, G ^a   Tarnowski, K ^a   Kowal, D ^a   Mergo, P ^b   Urbanczyk, W ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; DIFFRACTION;

BRAGG WAVELENGTH; DIFFRACTION ORDERS; HIGHER DIFFRACTION ORDER; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; REFLECTION PEAKS; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE;

POLYMERS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MINIATURIZATION; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84876006433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008521     Document Type: Article

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