Large diffractive scattering losses in the visible region produced by femtosecond laser written Bragg gratings

Author

Åslund, Mattias L. ; Jovanovic, Nemanja ; Groothoff, Nathaniel ; Canning, John ; Marshall, Graham D. ; Jackson, Stuart D. ; Fuerbach, Alex ; Withford, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Opt. Fibre Technol. Centre, Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present a study of the short wavelength attenuation induced by ultra-stable gratings written by a femtosecond Ti-sapphire laser. We demonstrate that these gratings are indistinguishable from UV-written Type-II gratings.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al₂O₃:Ti; UV-written Type-II grating; diffractive scattering losses; femtosecond laser written Bragg gratings; optical FBG; short-wavelength attenuation; ultra-stable grating; Australia; Bragg gratings; Diffraction gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the

Conference_Location

Sydney

Print_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-85825-807-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610512

Filename

4610512