100% reflectivity fibre gratings produced by a single excimer laser pulse

Abstract

We report the production of thermally robust fibre gratings having essentially 100% reflectivity created using a single excimer laser pulse. A new mechanism capable of producing very large photo-induced index changes is described.

Conference on Optical Fibre Communications (OFC '93)/International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communication (IOOC '93) San Jose 21-26 Feb (1993) pp.60-63

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