Excimer laser application: writing of fiber Bragg gratings

Ludolf Herbst D.D.S.; Sergei V. Govorkov

doi:10.1117/12.468392

15 April 2003 Excimer laser application: writing of fiber Bragg gratings

Ludolf Herbst D.D.S., Sergei V. Govorkov

Proceedings Volume 4941, Laser Micromachining for Optoelectronic Device Fabrication; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.468392
Event: Photonics Fabrication Europe, 2002, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

During the last decade the development of fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) was forced by the ever growing demand on data transmission capacity. Fiber Bragg gratings support as filters, amplifiers, and stabilizers the entire optical network philosophy avoiding optical to electrical signal conversion. Whereas in the early 1990s the most gratings were manufactured by researchers with continuous wave (cw) laser sources, the excimer laser became a common tool for high throughput writing of Bragg gratings in the mid 1990s. The excimer laser is nowadays still the most efficient UV laser source which leads to low cost of operations compared to other UV sources. This paper presents the possibilities and advantages of excimer lasers in regards to writing of fiber Bragg gratings.

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Ludolf Herbst D.D.S. and Sergei V. Govorkov "Excimer laser application: writing of fiber Bragg gratings", Proc. SPIE 4941, Laser Micromachining for Optoelectronic Device Fabrication, (15 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.468392

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