Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Long-Period Fiber Gratings in a Polarization-Maintaining Fiber

Author

Wolf, Alexey A. ; Dostovalov, Alexandr V. ; Lobach, Ivan A. ; Babin, Sergey A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Autom. & Electrometry, Novosibirsk, Russia

Volume

33

Issue

24

fYear

2015

Firstpage

5178

Lastpage

5183

Abstract

The method of femtosecond laser inscription by slit-apertured beam is applied for fabrication of long-period fiber gratings in polarization-maintaining Panda-type fiber. Polarization properties as well as ambient refractive index sensitivity are investigated for the inscribed gratings. It is shown that the method allows us to create high-quality element for the use as spectral filter of high-power fiber laser as well as high-temperature sensor.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical fibre communication; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre polarisation; optical filters; femtosecond laser inscription; high-temperature sensor; long-period fiber gratings; polarization properties; polarization-maintaining Panda-type fiber; refractive index sensitivity; slit-apertured beam; spectral filter; Fabrication; Gratings; Laser beams; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Ultrafast optics; Fiber grating; laser materials-processing applications; optical fiber polarization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2496355

Filename

7312896