• DocumentCode
    1414645
  • Title

    Gratings written with tripled output of Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

  • Author

    Blows, J. ; Tang, D.Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Optical Fibre Technol. Centre, Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    22
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    10/26/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1837
  • Lastpage
    1839
  • Abstract
    It is demonstrated that strong Bragg and long period gratings can be written using the frequency tripled output from a high repetition rate Q-switch Nd:YAG laser. No loss due to laser induced damage to the core was observed
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; diffraction gratings; laser beam annealing; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; Nd:YAG laser; Q-switched Nd:YAG laser; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; core; frequency tripled output; gratings; high repetition rate Q-switch laser; laser induced damage; long period gratings; loss; strong Bragg gratings; tripled output;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20001290
  • Filename
    888419