Ultra-broadband optical filter based on chirped long-period fiber grating using leaky mode coupling

Linlin XUE; Malumba Timoteo Bras Samuel; Weiwei QIU; Zhongpeng WANG

doi:10.1007/s11801-022-2039-0

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