Fabricating phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating by simple postprocessing using femtosecond laser

Xian Zhou; Yutang Dai; Joseph Muna Karanja; Fufei Liu; Minghong Yang

doi:10.1117/1.OE.56.2.027108

21 February 2017 Fabricating phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating by simple postprocessing using femtosecond laser

Xian Zhou, Yutang Dai, Joseph Muna Karanja, Fufei Liu, Minghong Yang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 2, 027108 (February 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.2.027108

Abstract

Fabricating of phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (PSFBG) by a femtosecond (fs) laser postprocessing of standard single mode fiber Bragg grating (FBG) without phase mask is demonstrated. A central region of grating is irradiated by an fs laser assisted with a rotating jig, which produces a π phase shift at the central region of the grating and forms a π phase-shifted FBG. The procedure is simple, fast, and has good reproductivity. The bandwidth of transmission peak of PSFBG grows with an increasing amount of laser energy or length of irradiation and decreasing of translation speed; the transmission loss decreases with increasing irradiation length. Additionally, the repeatability of fs postprocessing and temperature stability of PSFBG were investigated.

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Xian Zhou, Yutang Dai, Joseph Muna Karanja, Fufei Liu, and Minghong Yang "Fabricating phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating by simple postprocessing using femtosecond laser," Optical Engineering 56(2), 027108 (21 February 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.2.027108

Received: 29 September 2016; Accepted: 23 January 2017; Published: 21 February 2017

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