• DocumentCode
    2159149
  • Title

    Fabrication and thermal decay of fiber Bragg gratings in Bi-Al co-doped optical fibers

  • Author

    Violakis, Georgios ; Limberger, Hans G. ; Mashinsky, Valery M. ; Dianov, Evgeny M.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A cw-244-nm-Ar+-laser was used to fabricate Bragg gratings in pristine Bi-Al-SiO2 optical fibers with index changes as high as 3.6 × 10-4. Thermal annealing revealed peaks in the energy distribution at 1.2 and 2.3 eV.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; aluminium; bismuth; fibre lasers; laser beam annealing; silicon compounds; SiO2:Bi,Al; electron volt energy 1.2 eV to 2.3 eV; fiber Bragg gratings; optical fiber laser; optical fibers; silica optical fiber; thermal annealing; thermal decay; Annealing; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Thermal stability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065972