Title :
Fabrication and thermal decay of fiber Bragg gratings in Bi-Al co-doped optical fibers
Author :
Violakis, Georgios ; Limberger, Hans G. ; Mashinsky, Valery M. ; Dianov, Evgeny M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
A cw-244-nm-Ar+-laser was used to fabricate Bragg gratings in pristine Bi-Al-SiO2 optical fibers with index changes as high as 3.6 × 10-4. Thermal annealing revealed peaks in the energy distribution at 1.2 and 2.3 eV.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; aluminium; bismuth; fibre lasers; laser beam annealing; silicon compounds; SiO2:Bi,Al; electron volt energy 1.2 eV to 2.3 eV; fiber Bragg gratings; optical fiber laser; optical fibers; silica optical fiber; thermal annealing; thermal decay; Annealing; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Thermal stability;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9