Single-mode helical Bragg grating waveguide created in a multimode coreless fiber by femtosecond laser direct writing

Jun He; Jia He; Xizhen Xu; Bin Du; Baijie Xu; Changrui Liao; Zhiyong Bai; Yiping Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.434719

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