Title :
Stability of fiber Bragg gratings fabricated using UV Ar+ and ArF excimer in Bismuth-Aluminum-co-doped silica 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
Abstract :
Continuous annealing of fiber Bragg gratings fabricated using cw and pulsed laser irradiation in Bi-Al-co-doped fibers of different concentrations show activation energy spectra linked to Bi-Al. Thermal stability maps were obtained by their analytical representation.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; aluminium; annealing; argon; bismuth; optical fibre fabrication; silicon; thermal stability; Ar+; ArF; ArF excimer; SiO2:Bi,Al; UV Ar+ excimer; activation energy spectra; bismuth-aluminum-co-doped silica fibers; continuous annealing; cw laser irradiation; fiber Bragg gratings; pulsed laser irradiation; thermal stability; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser stability; Optical fiber amplifiers; Thermal stability;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.62
