• DocumentCode
    2233176
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950353