Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 5, Issue 3, 334(2012)

Characteristic control of long period fiber grating (LPFG) fabricated by infrared femtosecond laser

Xiaoyan SUN1,2, Peng HUANG1, Jiefeng ZHAO1, Li WEI3, Nan ZHANG1, Dengfeng KUANG1, and Xiaonong ZHU1、*
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  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Key Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 2College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, State Key Laboratory of High Performance Complex Manufacturing, Changsha 410083, China
  • 3Department of Physics & Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada
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    Long period fiber gratings (LPFGs) with different spectral characteristics were fabricated with 1 kHz, 50 fs laser pulses. The contrast of resonant rejection band can be significantly increased by a proper amount of axial stress along a fiber during laser writing or postprocessing with lower energy density laser irradiation. Variations of focal condition, pulse energy of laser irradiation and the number of grating periods lead to the generation of resonance rejection band of LPFGs from single-peak to multi-peak plus larger out-of-band loss. The out-of-band loss is primarily caused by Mie scattering from the laser processed cites, and it can be reduced by decreasing the duty cycle of grating pitch instead of lowing down the actual power of laser irradiation.

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    Xiaoyan SUN, Peng HUANG, Jiefeng ZHAO, Li WEI, Nan ZHANG, Dengfeng KUANG, Xiaonong ZHU. Characteristic control of long period fiber grating (LPFG) fabricated by infrared femtosecond laser[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(3): 334

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    Paper Information

    Received: May. 7, 2012

    Accepted: May. 21, 2012

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2012

    The Author Email: ZHU Xiaonong (xnzhu1@nankai.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-012-0270-1

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