Response of CO2 laser written long period fiber gratings packaged by polymer materials

Author

Wu, Zhaodi ; Liu, Yunqi ; Zou, Lian ; Chen, Na ; Pang, Fufei ; Wang, Tingyun

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Specialty Fiber Opt. & Opt. Access Networks, Shanghai Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2011

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We demonstrate the packaging of CO₂ laser written long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs) using different polymer materials. We use three different silicone rubber polymers to package the LPFGs by simply coating it outside the grating. After the polymer coating, the resonance wavelength of LPFG was found to shift towards shorter wavelength by about 6 nm, and the temperature sensitivity of the packaged gratings was studied experimentally. Experiments showed that the gratings packaged by different polymers have different temperature characteristics and all of them have good thermal stability.

Keywords

carbon compounds; diffraction gratings; fibre optic sensors; gas lasers; laser materials processing; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre testing; packaging; silicone rubber; spectral line shift; temperature sensors; thermal stability; CO₂; carbon dioxide laser; long period fiber grating; polymer coating; polymer materials; resonance wavelength; silicone rubber polymer; temperature sensitivity; thermal stability; wavelength shift; Abstracts; Computers; Fiber lasers; Materials; Optical computing; Optical fibers; Long-period fiber grating; package; polymer; refractive index; temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2011. ACP. Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2162-108X

Print_ISBN

978-0-8194-8961-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1117/12.905548

Filename

6210646