Long-period grating in chalcogenide fibers: Application to monitoring photobleaching

Author

Pudo, D. ; Mägi, E.C. ; Eggleton, B.J.

Author_Institution

Centre for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report the first demonstration of long period gratings in single mode As₂Se₃ chalcogenide glass fiber. The grating is subsequently used to detect what we believe is a weak, reversible photobleaching process.

Keywords

amorphous semiconductors; arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; diffraction gratings; optical fibre testing; optical fibres; optical glass; optical saturable absorption; As₂Se₃; long-period grating; photobleaching monitoring; reversible photobleaching process; single-mode chalcogenide glass fiber; Fiber gratings; Glass; Monitoring; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Photobleaching; Pulse measurements; Refractive index; Resonance; Wavelength measurement; (060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications; (060.2370) Fiber optics sensors; (060.2400) Fiber properties; (190.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (350.2770) Gratings;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628060

Filename

4628060