Title :
Long-period grating in chalcogenide fibers: Application to monitoring photobleaching
Author :
Pudo, D. ; Mägi, E.C. ; Eggleton, B.J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
We report the first demonstration of long period gratings in single mode As2Se3 chalcogenide glass fiber. The grating is subsequently used to detect what we believe is a weak, reversible photobleaching process.
Keywords :
amorphous semiconductors; arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; diffraction gratings; optical fibre testing; optical fibres; optical glass; optical saturable absorption; As2Se3; long-period grating; photobleaching monitoring; reversible photobleaching process; single-mode chalcogenide glass fiber; Fiber gratings; Glass; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Photobleaching; Pulse measurements; Refractive index; Resonance; Wavelength measurement; (060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications; (060.2370) Fiber optics sensors; (060.2400) Fiber properties; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (350.2770) Gratings;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628060
