Long-period fibre grating fabrication with focused CO2 laser pulses
Long-period fibre grating fabrication with focused CO2 laser pulses
- Author(s): D.D. Davis ; T.K. Gaylord ; E.N. Glytsis ; S.G. Kosinski ; S.C. Mettler ; A.M. Vengsarkar
- DOI: 10.1049/el:19980239
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- Author(s): D.D. Davis 1 ; T.K. Gaylord 2 ; E.N. Glytsis 2 ; S.G. Kosinski 3 ; S.C. Mettler 1 ; A.M. Vengsarkar 3
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Affiliations:
1: Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Norcross, USA
2: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
3: Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA
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Affiliations:
1: Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Norcross, USA
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Volume 34, Issue 3,
5 February 1998,
p.
302 – 303
DOI: 10.1049/el:19980239 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
A new, simple method of fabricating long-period fibre gratings by direct exposure of the fibre to focused 10.6 µm wavelength CO2 laser pulses is presented. No ultraviolet exposure is used. Hydrogen loading is found to enhance the writing sensitivity.
Inspec keywords: diffraction gratings; gas lasers; optical fibre fabrication; laser materials processing
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Subjects: Gratings, echelles; Fibre optics; Optical fibre fabrication, cladding, splicing, joining; Other fibre optical devices and techniques; Laser applications
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