DocumentCode
449209
Title
30 dB long-period fibre grating inscription by high-intensity femtosecond 352 nm laser pulses
Author
Dubov, M. ; Bennion, I. ; Slattery, Stephen A. ; Nikogosyan, David N.
Author_Institution
Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Volume
3
fYear
2005
fDate
25-29 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
613
Abstract
We describe long-period grating inscription in hydrogenated telecom fibres using high-intensity 352 nm laser pulses and show that this technique allows us to fabricate very strong (30 dB) high-quality fibre gratings via three-photon absorption.
Keywords
Bragg gratings; high-speed optical techniques; hydrogenation; laser materials processing; multiphoton processes; optical fibre fabrication; 352 nm; high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses; hydrogenated telecom fibres; long-period fibre grating inscription; three-photon absorption;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location
IET
ISSN
0537-9989
Print_ISBN
0-86341-543-1
Type
conf
Filename
1576423
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