{"title":"Annealing of the Induced Birefringence by UV and IR Lasers in Fiber Bragg Gratings","authors":"P. Lu, S. Mihailov, D. Grobnic","doi":"10.1109/SOPO.2009.5230263","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The annealing curves of the birefringence induced by both ultraviolet (UV) and femtosecond infrared (fs-IR) lasers in fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are examined. Experimental results show that the induced birefringence in hydrogen (H2)-loaded SMF-28 fibers by both UV and IR lasers can be annealed completely at low temperatures when moderate FBGs are inscribed (index modulation less than 10 -3 ). For strong gratings inscribed by UV laser in H2-loaded SMF-28 fiber and gratings inscribed by fs-IR laser in unloaded SMF-28 fiber, the birefringence annealing curves strongly depend on the laser wavelength, laser power and the exposure time.","PeriodicalId":6416,"journal":{"name":"2009 Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2009 Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOPO.2009.5230263","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The annealing curves of the birefringence induced by both ultraviolet (UV) and femtosecond infrared (fs-IR) lasers in fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are examined. Experimental results show that the induced birefringence in hydrogen (H2)-loaded SMF-28 fibers by both UV and IR lasers can be annealed completely at low temperatures when moderate FBGs are inscribed (index modulation less than 10 -3 ). For strong gratings inscribed by UV laser in H2-loaded SMF-28 fiber and gratings inscribed by fs-IR laser in unloaded SMF-28 fiber, the birefringence annealing curves strongly depend on the laser wavelength, laser power and the exposure time.