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Article
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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1.3 PHYSICAL SCIENCES, 2.2 ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC, INFORMATION ENGINEERING
Abstract
This letter reports the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) within in-house fabricated fluoroaluminate (AlF3) glass fibers using femtosecond (fs) laser inscription at 800 nm. The grating strength of the FBGs was investigated for different pulse energies and different orders, and a 3rd-order FBG with Bragg wavelength at 1557 nm was found to have the highest reflectivity of 99.5%. In addition, the reflectivity of the mid-IR grating peaks for different orders was also studied, and a 2nd-order FBG with a reflectivity of 98.8% was obtained at 2864 nm. Finally, the temperature characteristics of a mid-IR FBG were studied between 30 °C and 150 °C, showing a linear wavelength dependence and an excellent stability for the refractive index modulation. Such highly reflectivity FBGs in AlF3 fiber have significant potential for applications in the development of compact all-fiber mid-IR fiber lasers.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2022.3159556
Recommended Citation
L. She et al., "Direct Femtosecond Laser Inscription of High-Order Bragg Gratings in Fluoroaluminate Glass Fiber," in IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1-5, April 2022, Art no. 5119105, doi: 10.1109/JPHOT.2022.3159556.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Key R&D Program of China
Publication Details
Open access
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9736573