Journal of Lightwave Technology

August 1997 volume 15 issue 8

Advance Table of Contents

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON FIBER GRATINGS, PHOTOSENSITIVITY AND POLING

GUEST EDITORIAL

Hill, Fiber Bragg Grating Technology Fundamentals and Overview (I).

THEORY

Erdogan, Fiber grating spectra (I).
Peral, Generalized Bloch wave analysis for fiber and waveguide gratings.
Litchinitser, Optimization of fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation.
Carballar, Phase reconstruction from reflectivity in fiber Bragg gratings.
Litchinitser, Fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in transmission.

PHOTOSENSITIVITY

Douay, Densification involved in the uv-based photosensitivity of silica glasses /optical fibres (I).
Galstyan, Photoinduced self-developing relief gratings in thin film chalcogenide glasses.
Canning, Correlation between photo-darkening and index change during 193nm irradiation.
Williams, Photosensitivity of rare earth-doped ZBLAN fluoride glasses.
Askins, Photodarkening and photobleaching in fiber optic bragg gratings.
Ramachandran, Micro-optical lenslets by photoexpansion in chalcogenide glasses.

FABRICATION & DEVICES

Grubb, Fiber gratings in lasers and amplifiers (I).
Giles, Lightwave applications of fiber Bragg gratings (I).
Wei, Phase-shifted Bragg grating filters with symmetrical structures.
Hinton, Ramped unchirped fiber gratings for dispersion compensation.
Asseh, A grating writing technique for long superstructured fiber Bragg grating.
Sugden, Fabrication of bandpass filters based on concatenated chirped fiber gratings.
Bakhti, Multiple quarter-wave phase-shifts uv-written bandpass filters in optical fibers.
Hsu, Efficient and tunable Er/Yb fiber grating lasers.
Kersey, Fiber grating sensors (I).

STABILITY & RELIABILITY

Riant, Ageing study of the photosensitivities at 193 nm and 240 nm. .
Baker, Thermal decay of fiber Bragg gratings in boron and germanium co-doped silica fiber.
Kannan, Thermal stability analysis of uv-induced fiber bragg gratings.

POLING AND NONLINEARITIES

Kazansky, Glass fiber poling and applications (I).
de Sterke, High-intensity pulse propagation in uniform gratings and in grating superstructures (I).
Chen, Ultrashort pulse reflection from fibre gratings: a numerical investigation.