Ultrafast direct written waveguide Bragg gratings utilizing a high pulse energy femtosecond oscillator

Author

Miese, Christopher ; Withford, Michael J. ; Fuerbach, Alexander

Author_Institution

Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Direct written Waveguide Bragg gratings (WBGs) were fabricated in Borosilicate. We utilized a 5.1 MHz femtosecond oscillator exploiting heat accumulation and micro-structuring effects. By synchronizing a Pockels cell to the translation of the sample the pulse energy was modulated between the cumulative heating regime and the micro-damaging regime. We present and characterize WBGs fabricated in a single step at high process speeds.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Pockels effect; holey fibres; oscillators; waveguides; Pockels cell; WBG; borosilicate; cumulative heating regime; frequency 5.1 MHz; heat accumulation; high pulse energy femtosecond oscillator; microdamaging regime; microstructuring effects; pulse energy; ultrafast direct written waveguide Bragg gratings; Bragg gratings; Optical device fabrication; Optical devices; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Oscillators; Pulse modulation; Surface emitting lasers; Ultrafast optics; Writing; Waveguide Bragg gratings; direct write; integrated optics devices; ultrafast laser processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7799-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7797-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549026

Filename

5549026