Line Position-Dependent Effect in Line-by-Line Inscribed Fiber Bragg Gratings

Line-by-line direct writing by femtosecond laser has been proved to be a simple and effective method for the fabrication of low-loss fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), and is more flexible compared with the traditional ultraviolet exposure method. In this paper, the line-position-dependent characteristics...

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Auteurs principaux: Hongye Li, Xiaofan Zhao, Binyu Rao, Meng Wang, Baiyi Wu, Zefeng Wang
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Langue:EN
Publié: MDPI AG 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/dc96f700bda941ddabecef02fc896ca5
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Résumé:Line-by-line direct writing by femtosecond laser has been proved to be a simple and effective method for the fabrication of low-loss fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), and is more flexible compared with the traditional ultraviolet exposure method. In this paper, the line-position-dependent characteristics of cladding modes coupling in line-by-line FBGs have been studied, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time. Both theoretical and experimental results show that off-center inscribing could compress the bandwidth of the Bragg resonance and excite more abundant cladding mode coupling, in which the core-guided fundamental mode would couple to the cladding-guided LP0n and LP1n simultaneously. By aligning the line positions across the core region, the first apodized line-by-line FBG was achieved. This work enriches the theories of line-by-line FBGs and provides an inscription guidance to meet different application requirements.