Fiber Bragg Gratings Made in Highly Nonlinear Bismuth Oxide Fibers Using IR Ultrafast Radiation

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

Personal VDE Members are entitled to a 10% discount on this title

Authors:
Grobnic, D.; Walker, R. B.; Mihailov, S. J.; Smelser, C. W.; Lu, P. (Communications Research Centre Canada, 3701 Carling Ave.,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2H 8S2)

Abstract:
We have written for the first time high quality Bragg grating structures in highly nonlinear single mode bismuth oxide fibers. The grating inscription method is presented along with the annealing behavior of these gratings.