Title :
Mechanically induced and cascaded long-period gratings in ZBLAN fibers
Author :
Lu, Hsin-yu ; Adams, Rhys ; Saad, Mohammed ; Orsini, Patrick ; Burga, Ruben ; Chen, Lawrence R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We report the demonstration of mechanically induced long-period gratings in ZBLAN fibers. We also show preliminary results of an all-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on cascading these gratings.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; aluminium compounds; barium compounds; diffraction gratings; lanthanum compounds; optical fibre fabrication; sodium compounds; zirconium compounds; ZBLAN; ZBLAN fibers; all fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer; cascaded long period grating; mechanically induced grating; Fiber gratings; Gratings; Light sources; Optical interferometry; Optimized production technology; Photonic crystal fibers; Silicon compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110748
