Response of Axially Stressed Edge-Illuminated Holographic Gratings in PQ/PMMA Photopolymers

Author

Castillo, Jose Elias ; Russo, Juan Manuel ; Kostuk, Raymond K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Volume

20

Issue

13

fYear

2008

fDate

7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1199

Lastpage

1201

Abstract

A free-space unslanted, edge-illuminated, tunable Bragg filter in Phenanthrenquinone doped Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PQPMMA) operating at 1550 nm has been realized with a tuning range larger than 4 nm. The grating is ~1 cm long with a rejection efficiency of ~90% and a full-width at half-maximum spectral width of ~0.35 nm in its unstressed state. The tunability of the grating was achieved by stretching and compressing the sample.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; holographic gratings; optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical polymers; optical tuning; PQPMMA; axially stressed edge-illuminated holographic gratings; compressing condition; optical communication; phenanthrenquinone doped poly(methyl methacrylate) photopolymers; rejection efficiency; spectral width; stretching condition; tunable Bragg filter; wavelength 1550 nm; Bragg gratings; Holographic optical components; Holography; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical polymers; Optical surface waves; Stress; Wavelength division multiplexing; Holographic gratings; optical communication; optical filters; phenanthrenquinone-doped poly(methyl methacrylate) (PQPMMA); tunable grating;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.925187

Filename

4544829