Efficient grating writing through fibre coating with femtosecond IR radiation and phase mask
Efficient grating writing through fibre coating with femtosecond IR radiation and phase mask
- Author(s): S.J. Mihailov ; D. Grobnic ; C.W. Smelser
- DOI: 10.1049/el:20070114
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- Author(s): S.J. Mihailov 1 ; D. Grobnic 1 ; C.W. Smelser 1
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1: Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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1: Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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Volume 43, Issue 8,
12 April 2007,
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442 – 443
DOI: 10.1049/el:20070114 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
Bragg gratings have been written through the polymer coating into hydrogen loaded SMF-28 fibres with ultrafast 800 nm radiation and a phase mask. Index modulations of up to 3.5×10−4 were induced with fibre strengths remaining at ∼85% of the pristine fibre value.
Inspec keywords: optical fibre fabrication; high-speed optical techniques; Bragg gratings; laser materials processing
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Subjects: Fibre optics; Laser materials processing; Ultrafast optical techniques; Laser materials processing; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Gratings, echelles; Laser beam modulation, pulsing and switching; mode locking and tuning; Optical fibre fabrication, cladding, splicing, joining
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