RECORD OF BRAGG GRATING IN AN ANISOTROPIC OPTICAL FIBER USING ArF EXCIMER LASER
ITMO University, 197101, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation; Associate professor
S. V. Varzhel
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, 197101, Russian Federation; Associate professor
A. V. Kulikov
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, 197101, Russian Federation; Associate professor
D. A. Palanjyan
ITMO University, Department of Laser Technologies and Applied Ecology, St. Petersburg; Graduate Student
A. I. Gribaev
ITMO University, Department of Physics and Techniques of Optical Communications, St. Petersburg; Graduate Student
K. A. Konnov
ITMO University, Department of Physics and Techniques of Optical Communications, St. Petersburg; Graduate Student
Abstract. Record of Bragg grating by a single 17-ns pulse of ArF excimer laser in an anisotropic optical fiber with elliptical stress cladding is demonstrated. Results of visualization of fiber Bragg gratings induced in this type of birefringent optical fiber are presented.
Keywords:
Bragg grating, birefringence, excimer laser, phase mask
