Thermal annealing of UV induced compaction in germanosilicate preform plates

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2841, Issue , 1996, Pages 258-266

  Douay, M ^a   Xie, W X ^a   Bernage, P ^a   Ramecourt, D ^a   Niay, P ^a   Poumellec, B ^b   Bayon, J F ^c   Poignant, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; Densification; Germanosilicate glass; Photosensitivity

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; DENSIFICATION; MODULATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREFORMING;

ANNEALING EXPERIMENTS; DENSIFICATION MODELS; DENSIFICATION PROCESS; GERMANOSILICATE GLASS; INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX; INTERFEROMETRIC MICROSCOPE; PHOTOINDUCED REFRACTIVE-INDEX MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 9344249784     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.258980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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