In this paper, we presented the inscription and sensing characteristics of eccentric fiber Bragg gratings (EFBGs) through femtosecond laser. This kind of fiber grating is caused by localized refractive index modulation that deviates from the center of the fiber core. EFBGs were prepared in SMF-28 single-mode fiber by 800nm femtosecond laser point-by-point writing method. The temperature and refractive index sensing properties of the prepared EFBG were investigated. The experimental results show that both the Bragg wavelength and cladding mode resonance wavelength of EFBG increase linearly with temperature and show extremely high-temperature robustness. The temperature sensitivity of Bragg resonance is 14.4 pm/℃. As the SRI increases, the Bragg peak remains unchanged and the cutoff wavelength of EFBG cladding mode resonance red-shifts with a sensitivity of 649.29 nm/RIU.
Eccentric fiber Bragg gratings (EFGBs) in standard single-mode optical fiber by using point-by-point direct writing technique with 800 nm femtosecond laser. The experimental results show that the transmission spectrum amplitude is coupled by Bragg and cladding mode resonance over a wide spectrum range. Meanwhile, the spectral characteristics of EFBGs were studied by adjusting grating period, grating length, laser power and eccentric distance. The eccentric distance is the most essential parameter in terms of inscribing gratings. It can break up the original structural symmetry of the fiber by changing the offset of grating in the fiber core. This change will bring great opportunities and breakthroughs to the application of EFGBs.
The reflection-type MoS2 saturable absorber was prepared by the spin coating method. The silver plated reflector was made by plating the sliver reflective film on a Hydrophilic treated quartz sheet. The Tm,Ho:LiLuF4 all solid-state laser with MoS2 reflective saturable absorber is realized in Q-switched mode-locking operation. The laser maximum output power is 156 mW, typical Q-switched pulse envelope repetition frequency is 10KHz and the pulse width about 200μs. The repetition frequency of the mode-locked pulse sequence is 100 MHz and the modulation depth is close to 100%. The results show that the reflective MoS2 material can be used as a saturable absorber for all solid-state lasers in 2μm band.
The effects of pulse power, filling ratio, number of period and period on the long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs) by using radiation of femtosecond laser. The results show that the strong resonance peaks of LPFGs can be induced and the resonant peaks have different degrees of offset. When the parameters of the LPFG are set to be number of grating period of 70, filling ratio of 0.5, pulse power of 2.0 mW and period of 500 μm, the first resonance peak of LPFG has a blue-shift of 147.3 nm. Furthermore, the size of first resonance peak of LPFG is -19.4 dB. These characteristics of LPFGs provide a favorable opportunity for in-depth research of late-model sensing devices.
By employing Graphene Oxide (GO) grown by vertical growth method as a saturable absorber, we first demonstrated a stable passively Q-switched mode-locked (QML) all-solid-state Tm:LLF laser. when the LD pump power is higher than 8.58W, the laser operation gets into a stable Q-switched mode-locked state, corresponding mode-locked pulse repetition frequency is 104.2MHz. The modulation depth of mode-locked pulses in the Q envelope is close to 100%. The results show that graphene oxide is a promising SA for QML solid-state laser in the 2μm wavelength
We demonstrated a dual-wavelength Tm,Ho:LuLiF4 laser operating at 1895nm and 1950nm by adjusting the pitch angle of the output coupling mirror. With a X-type four-mirror cavity, a total output power of 575 mW is achieved at an incident pump power of 2.1 W, which corresponding slope efficiency is 27.95% and the threshold power is low to 110 mW. The dual-wavelength laser is very useful for the generation of coherent light source in terahertz band.
An ultrashort polarization splitter based on dual-core photonic crystal fibers with gold wire has been proposed. Based on the beam propagation method with anisotropic perfectly matched layers, its polarization splitter coupling length, coupling length ratio, extinction ratio (ER), and bandwidth are numerically investigated. When the gold thread is filled in the fiber, the surface of the gold wire will produce the surface plasmon polaritons, which has certain influence on the beam propagation. A polarization splitter with shorter length and greater working bandwidth can be obtained by filling the gold wire. Numerical results demonstrate that the polarization splitter possesses extremely the length of 290 μm and high ER of −56.5 dB at the wavelength of 1.55 μm. Moreover, the polarization splitter is proposed to achieve ER better than −10 dB and a bandwidth of 19.2 nm.
In this paper, the long period fiber gratings (LPFGs) in standard SMF-28 telecommunication fibers without hydrogen loading were inscribed by using point-to-point direct writing method of femtosecond laser pulses with pulse duration of 100 fs, repetition rate of 1kHz and a central wavelength of 800 nm. The LPFGs with different spectral characteristics were fabricated by adjusting grating period, grating length and duty ratio. The results show that the resonant peak wavelengths shift to the long-wave direction with the increase of the grating length increasing. The variations of duty ratio will lead to the generation of resonance rejection band of LPFGs from singlepeak to multi-peak plus lesser out-of-band loss.
A Sr3Yb0.1Gd0.2Y0.7(BO3)3 single crystal was grown by the Czochralski method. The crystal was evaluated by absorption, emission, and luminescence decay measurements. The relevant absorption and emission cross-sections as well as fluorescence lifetimes were calculated and compared. Studies showed that the existence of Gd3+ can lead to greater structural disorder and broaden the spectra of the crystal. Diode-pumped laser action of this crystal is demonstrated for the first time, and the best output power of 1.8 W with a slope efficiency of 75.8% was obtained. Dual-wavelength and three-wavelength oscillations were observed. Thus, this crystal is suitable for use as tunable or ultrashort laser mediums.
We proposed a new structure of highly nonlinear low- dispersion photonic crystal fiber. Numerical results show that the dispersion variation is within ± 0.7 ps·km-1·nm-1 in the C band, and the corresponding nonlinear coefficient is 60.5 60.5 W-1·km-1. With the 6 W peak power of the input pulse, and PCF with 800 m length generates a SC with a spectrum ranging from 1500 to 1800 nm.
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