Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549026
