Improved Efficiency Bragg Grating Inscription in a Commercial Solid Core Microstructured Optical Fiber

Author

Violakis, Georgios ; Pissadakis, Stavros

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Struct. & laser (IESL), Heraklion

Volume

2

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

220

Abstract

The inscription of Bragg gratings in a commercially available, all-silica microstructured optical fibre is demonstrated in this manuscript. Gratings are recorded without any fibre pre-conditioning, by using the phase mask interferometry technique and 193 nm, 10 ns excimer laser radiation. Modulated and average refractive index evolution and thermal annealing curves are presented and discussed. Bragg grating formation was observed for energy densities as low as 90 mJ/cm².

Keywords

Bragg gratings; excimer lasers; laser beam machining; optical fibre fabrication; rapid thermal annealing; refractive index; Bragg grating formation; all-silica microstructured optical fibre; commercial solid core microstructured optical fiber; excimer laser radiation; improved efficiency Bragg grating inscription; phase mask interferometry; refractive index evolution; thermal annealing; time 10 ns; wavelength 193 nm; Annealing; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Refractive index; Silicon compounds; Solids; Bragg Gratings; Fused Silica Photosensitivity; Microstructured and Photonic Crystal Fibres;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296185

Filename

4296185