• DocumentCode
    2057035
  • Title

    Microchannelled chirped fibre Bragg grating based refractive index sensor formed by femto-second laser processing and hf-etching

  • Author

    Fu, Hongyan ; Zhou, Kaiming ; Saffari, Pouneh ; Mou, Chengbo ; Zhang, Lin ; He, Sailing ; Bennion, Ian

  • Author_Institution
    Photonic Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The microchannelled chirped fibre Bragg grating (MCFBG) was fabricated using femtosecond laser processing and HF-etching. Intrinsical refractive-index sensitivity induced by the microchannel makes MCFBGs ideal for biochemical sensing.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; etching; fibre optic sensors; high-speed optical techniques; refractive index measurement; HF etching; femto-second laser processing; microchannelled chirped fibre Bragg grating; refractive index sensor; refractive-index sensitivity; Bragg gratings; Chemical lasers; Chirp; Etching; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Microchannel; Optical fiber sensors; Refractive index; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brussels
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2227-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2228-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729339
  • Filename
    4729339