• DocumentCode
    1381616
  • Title

    Long-period fibre grating fabrication with focused CO2 laser pulses

  • Author

    Davis, D.D. ; Gaylord, T.K. ; Glytsis, E.N. ; Kosinski, S.G. ; Mettler, S.C. ; Vengsarkar, A.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Norcross, GA, USA
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    2/5/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    302
  • Lastpage
    303
  • Abstract
    A new, simple method of fabricating long-period fibre gratings by direct exposure of the fibre to focused 10.6 μm wavelength CO2 laser pulses is presented. No ultraviolet exposure is used. Hydrogen loading is found to enhance the writing sensitivity
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; gas lasers; laser materials processing; optical fibre fabrication; 10.6 micron; CO2; H loading; H2; fibre grating fabrication; focused CO2 laser pulses; long-period fibre gratings; writing sensitivity enhancement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19980239
  • Filename
    677395
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1381616