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Recording Bragg gratings in a birefringent optical fiber with a single 20-ns pulse of an excimer laser

Varzhel, S.V., Kulikov, A.V., Meshkovskiy, I.K., Strigalev, V.E.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Варжель С.В., Куликов А.В., Мешковский И.К., Стригалев В.Е. Запись брэгговских решеток в двулучепреломляющем оптическом волокне одиночным 20-нс импульсом эксимерного лазера // Оптический журнал. 2012. Т. 79. № 4. С. 85–88.

Varzhel’ S. V., Kulikov A. V., Meshkovskiĭ I. K., Strigalev V. E. Recording Bragg gratings in a birefringent optical fiber with a single 20-ns pulse of an excimer laser [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2012. V. 79. № 4. P. 85–88.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

S. V. Varzhel’, A. V. Kulikov, I. K. Meshkovskiĭ, and V. E. Strigalev, "Recording Bragg gratings in a birefringent optical fiber with a single 20-ns pulse of an excimer laser," Journal of Optical Technology. 79(4), 257-259 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.79.000257

Abstract:

This paper presents the results of recording Bragg gratings in a birefringent optical fiber having increased photosensitivity with a single 20-ns pulse from a KrF excimer laser. A description is given of a stand for recording fiber Bragg gratings by the phase-mask method and of experimentally produced Bragg gratings in a birefringent optical fiber with elliptical stress cladding, having an efficiency greater than 2% and a reflection spectrum about 0.1 nm wide at half-height.

Keywords:

fiber Bragg lattice, birefringence, excimer laser

OCIS codes: 060.3735, 060.3738, 230.1950

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