FIBER STRENGTH UNAFFECTED BY ONLINE WRITING OF SINGLE-PULSE BRAGG GRATINGS

Authors
ASKINS CG PUTNAM MA PATRICK HJ FRIEBELE EJ
Citation
Cg. Askins et al., FIBER STRENGTH UNAFFECTED BY ONLINE WRITING OF SINGLE-PULSE BRAGG GRATINGS, Electronics Letters, 33(15), 1997, pp. 1333-1334
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
33
Issue
15
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1333 - 1334
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1997)33:15<1333:FSUBOW>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Fibre Bragg gratings written with a KrF excimer laser on the draw towe r suffer no degradation of strength due to the high-intensity laser ex posure, and they exhibit tensile strength comparable to theoretical es timates for silica fibres. The high fibre strength critical for the us e of fibres as distributed sensors is preserved, in contrast to the im plications of a recent Letter.