An elliptical Talbot interferometer for fiber Bragg grating fabrication
An elliptical Talbot interferometer for fiber Bragg grating fabrication
A simple and easily aligned two-mirror interferometer for fabricating Bragg gratings in optical bulk materials, waveguides, and fibers is presented. The interferometer consists of a simple phase mask splitting element and two dielectric mirrors optimized for maximum reflectance at an incident angle of 45 deg. By choosing a suitable optical configuration the half-period of the phase mask is patterned on the interference plane, while a wide range of periodicities can be inscribed by adjusting the relative angles between the interferometer folding mirrors. The operation of the interferometer is demonstrated for grating inscription in Ge-doped optical fibers, using 213 nm, 150 ps Nd:YAG radiation.
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Pissadakis, Stavros
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Reekie, Laurence
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June 2005
Pissadakis, Stavros
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Reekie, Laurence
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Pissadakis, Stavros and Reekie, Laurence
(2005)
An elliptical Talbot interferometer for fiber Bragg grating fabrication.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 76 (66101), .
(doi:10.1063/1.1921247).
Abstract
A simple and easily aligned two-mirror interferometer for fabricating Bragg gratings in optical bulk materials, waveguides, and fibers is presented. The interferometer consists of a simple phase mask splitting element and two dielectric mirrors optimized for maximum reflectance at an incident angle of 45 deg. By choosing a suitable optical configuration the half-period of the phase mask is patterned on the interference plane, while a wide range of periodicities can be inscribed by adjusting the relative angles between the interferometer folding mirrors. The operation of the interferometer is demonstrated for grating inscription in Ge-doped optical fibers, using 213 nm, 150 ps Nd:YAG radiation.
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Published date: June 2005
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/46952
ISSN: 0034-6748
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Stavros Pissadakis
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Laurence Reekie
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