TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation into the power-law dependence of fibre Bragg grating growth
AU - Lee, Andrew
AU - Withford, Michael J.
AU - Dawes, Judith M.
PY - 2006/1/15
Y1 - 2006/1/15
N2 - We have undertaken a detailed experimental and numerical investigation of fibre Bragg grating growth rates over relatively long timescales, in which we consider the influence of zero-order UV irradiation, jitter and drift. In contrast to other studies, our results show that measurements of grating growth dynamics are in good agreement with numerical expressions describing exponential decay of a population of defect sites if the influence of small lateral displacements between the optical fibre and the modulated UV beam (jitter) are accounted for.
AB - We have undertaken a detailed experimental and numerical investigation of fibre Bragg grating growth rates over relatively long timescales, in which we consider the influence of zero-order UV irradiation, jitter and drift. In contrast to other studies, our results show that measurements of grating growth dynamics are in good agreement with numerical expressions describing exponential decay of a population of defect sites if the influence of small lateral displacements between the optical fibre and the modulated UV beam (jitter) are accounted for.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.07.040
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.07.040
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:28444494069
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 257
SP - 261
EP - 269
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 2
ER -