Behavior of femtosecond laser-induced eccentric fiber Bragg gratings at very high temperatures.

In this work, eccentric Bragg gratings are photoinscribed in telecommunication-grade optical fibers. They are localized close to the core-cladding interface, yielding strong cladding mode resonance couplings and high photoinduced birefringence. Their transmitted amplitude spectrum is measured with polarized light while they are exposed to temperature changes up to 900°C.

Single and multiple cross sections for ionizing processes of biological molecules by protons and alpha-particle impact: a classical Monte Carlo approach.

A classical trajectory model has been used to predict total cross sections of single and double ionizing processes (including capture processes) for several ion-biological molecule collisional systems in the intermediate and high energy range. In this work, the systems studied are water, adenine or cytosine targets ionized by protons and alpha-particles with kinetic energies ranging from 25 keV amu(-1) to 3000 keV amu(-1). In our approach, we have combined several features of two classical methods namely the classical trajectory Monte Carlo (CTMC) and the classical over-barrier (COB) models.