Title :
Optical circuits in fiber cladding: Femtosecond laser-written Bragg Grating Waveguides
Author :
Grenier, Jason R. ; Fernandes, Luís A. ; Marques, Paulo V S ; Aitchison, J.Stewart ; Herman, Peter R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
High strength, first order Bragg Grating Waveguides are inscribed in the core and cladding of optical fibers using oil immersion femtosecond direct laser-writing. A laser-induced birefringence of 2.05 × 10-4 was inferred from polarization split Bragg resonances.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; birefringence; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical fibre cladding; optical waveguides; femtosecond laser written Bragg grating waveguides; laser-induced birefringence; oil immersion femtosecond direct laser writing; optical circuits; optical fiber cladding; polarization split Bragg resonances; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
