Phase mask-based IR femtosecond grating inscription in a photonic crystal fiber with short focal length cylindrical lens

T. Baghdasaryan (1) , Thomas Geernaert (1) , Adriana Morana (2) , Emmanuel Marin (2) , Sylvain Girard (2) , Mariusz Makara (3) , Pawel Mergo (3) , Thienpont Hugo (1) , Francis Berghmans (1)

1 VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien
3 Department of Optical Fiber Technology [Lublin]

We first numerically studied the alignment peculiarities and then successfully inscribed a 4 dB strong fiber Bragg grating in a hexagonal lattice photonic crystal fiber in less than 4 seconds using a femtosecond pulse laser at 1030 nm.

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

T. Baghdasaryan, Thomas Geernaert, Adriana Morana, Emmanuel Marin, Sylvain Girard, et al.. Phase mask-based IR femtosecond grating inscription in a photonic crystal fiber with short focal length cylindrical lens. Advanced Photonics 2018 (BGPP, IPR, NP, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, SOF), Jul 2018, Zurich, Switzerland. pp.JTh4A.6. ⟨ujm-01964695⟩