Fiber Optic and Laser Sensors and Applications Book

	Conference Committee
	Multigigahertz femtosecond fiber lasers by passive mode locking	2
	Low-threshold diode-pumped operation of the holmium upconversion fiber laser	8
	Energy upconversion and spectroscopic studies of holmium-doped ZBLAN fibers	18
	Polarization dependence of the mean wavelength of Er-doped superfluorescent fiber sources	26
	Bragg grating effects in optical fiber couplers calculated by coupled supermode theory	32
	Fused-fiber coupler behavior under UV exposure	43
	Analysis of the fiber Bragg gratings using the lattice filter model	50
	Broadband power division in fused-fiber couplers using long-period gratings	58
	Dynamics of grating growth in GeB-doped fiber	66
	Theoretical and experimental characterization of thermal effects in doped fibers	72
	Digital all-optical switching in a ytterbium-doped two-mode fiber interferometer	81
	Fast stable thermal fiber switch in a Sagnac interferometer	86
	Second-order nonlinearity and structural change in UV-poled glass	94
	DC Kerr coefficient of silica: theory and experiment	102
	Thermal poling and space charge dynamics including surface impurity injection in fused silica	108
	Advances in the measurement of the poled silica nonlinear profile	115
	Recent results with thermal poling of fiber	120
	Addendum	125
	Author Index	126