{"title":"Material and fiber device aspects of poled fused silica","authors":"S. Brueck, T. Alley, R. A. Myers, X. Long","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.19","url":null,"abstract":"Since the discovery1 of a large, stable second-order χ(2) nonlinearity in temperature/electric field poled fused silica, there have been intensive efforts both to understand the microscopic mechanisms leading to the nonlinearity and to exploit the nonlinearity for planar waveguide and fiber devices. This paper will review the present status of both the fundamental studies and the device applications.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127617864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refractive index changes in Ge-doped silica glass induced by a KrF excimer laser irradiation","authors":"H. Nishikawa, Y. Miyake, E. Watanabe, D. Ito","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.21","url":null,"abstract":"Refractive-index changes (Δn) in Ge-doped silica glass exposed to KrF excimer laser were studied by the measurements of the diffraction efficiency from a grating formed using a phase mask. The Δn of 3.2 × 10-3 was observed for a hydrogentreated (150 atm, 2 weeks, room temperature) sample after a KrF laser irradiation (25 Hz, 0.5 J/cm2/pulse, 27 kJ/cm2), while the Δn obtained for a non-treated sample is less than 10−4. The depth profile of the Δn for the hydrogen-treated sample is limited by the distribution in the hydrogen concentration inside the sample, while it is determined by the attenuation of the ultraviolet light for the non-treated sample. Ultraviolet (UV) optical absorption measurements show that the decrease at a 5.1 eV band and the increase at ~6 eV are stronger in the hydrogen treated sample than in the non-treated one. Correlation between the observed refractive index change and UV absorption change will be discussed. Also, the role of hydrogen on the enhanced photosensitivity will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127766373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Absolute Prism-Assisted Maker Fringe Measurements of the Nonlinear Profile in Thermally Poled Silica","authors":"D. Pureur, A. C. Liu, M. Digonnet, G. Kino","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.btuc.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.btuc.4","url":null,"abstract":"Since the first measurements of a sizeable nonlinearity in thermally poled silica [1] were reported, there has been considerable interest in developing silica-based frequency converters and electrooptic devices. It is generally well accepted that the nonlinearity in thermally poled silica is confined to a thin (1-15 μm) layer on the glass sample that was exposed to the anode side during poling. However, reports differ markedly as to the shape (exponential [1], or Gaussian [2]) and thickness (a few to 10 μm and even 700 μm) [1-3] of this nonlinear region. In practical waveguide devices, a precise knowledge of these parameters is critical to understand and maximize the spatial overlap between this region and the optical mode. Yet to date, no standard method is available to measure these quantities reliably. Earlier, we made initial measurements of the nonlinearity using a prism pair [4]. Difficulties with the homogeneity of the poled region limited the maximum angle that could be explored, and a profile could not be definitively inferred. In this paper we describe 1) improvements in this prism-assisted Maker fringe technique and 2) a theoretical analysis that permits the first absolute measurement of the nonlinearity profile in poled silica.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130119888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Poumellec, H. Cens, A. Trukhin, J. Krupa, B. Leconte, M. Bubnov
{"title":"Defect population in Ge doped silica studied by fluorescence spectroscopy.","authors":"B. Poumellec, H. Cens, A. Trukhin, J. Krupa, B. Leconte, M. Bubnov","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.7","url":null,"abstract":"The interest for Ge doped SiO2 properties is revived by the search of optimisation of photorefractivity. The first step of the mechanism is an absorption at around 240-250 nm or 193 nm. Next step of the transformation leads to index change . Whatever it is connected to a special defect or not, the study of the defect population increases our understanding on that subject and for other applications (fiber line attenuation, nonlinear effect). In this paper, we show that UV spectrum of MCVD doped silica is composed of several gaussian components which appear at the same position and with the same width but varie in intensity depending on the samples. We try to systematize this population.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126453985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rare-earth-doped glass thin films for integrated photonics","authors":"A. Bruce","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.29","url":null,"abstract":"Applications for which rare earth doped planar waveguide devices can be a viable alternative to fiber based devices will be considered. Erbium doped planar waveguide amplifiers for 1.5 micron amplification will be considered in detail and used to highlight issues of host material selection, luminescence quenching, codoping, waveguide design, fabrication, performance, integration and packaging.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116988205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Madsen, J. Demarco, C. Henry, E. Laskowski, R. Scotti, T. Strasser
{"title":"Apodized UV-induced Gratings in Planar Waveguides for Compact Add-Drop Filters","authors":"C. Madsen, J. Demarco, C. Henry, E. Laskowski, R. Scotti, T. Strasser","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.btua.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.btua.4","url":null,"abstract":"Add-drop filters are key components for WDM communication systems. Filters with flat passbands, which can separate channels spaced by 100 GHz, are needed to allow many devices to be concatenated without decreasing the available channel bandwidth significantly. A Mach- Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) with UV-induced gratings realized using planar waveguides [1] is an attractive architecture for creating an add-drop filter (see Fig. 1a). To increase the number of devices which can be fabricated on a common substrate, it is desirable to make the overall device as short as possible; however, requirements on the allowable channel crosstalk (typically -20 dB for adjacent channels and -30 dB between the dropped and added channels) places a lower limit on grating length. Previous work has demonstrated Gaussian profile gratings [2] which have sidelobes on the short wavelength side of the Bragg wavelength. A double filtering architecture was reported with a transmitted isolation of -40 dB over the drop channel width and a 3dB width of 1 nm [3]. Such an architecture increases the number of gratings needed for each channel and requires that the two grating passbands be identical or passband narrowing occurs.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115232317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The potentialities of the plasmachemical technology for fabrication of silica-based photosensitive optical fibers","authors":"K. Golant, E. Dianov","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsue.4","url":null,"abstract":"Irreversible refractive index changes in silica-based optical fibers under the action of UV radiation (photorefractive effect) are associated with the presence of oxygen vacancies in the core glass (Si-ODC & Ge-ODC). Although the microscopic mechanism of the photorefractive effect has not been established in detail, it is Ge-ODC that ensure UV light delivery into the fiber core owing to their strong absorption band centered at 242 nm. Naturally, one of the ways of increasing photosensitivity of silica-based fibers is optimization of the preform fabrication regimes with a view to maximize the Ge-ODC concentration.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130750304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Margulis, F. Garcia, E. Hering, I. Carvalho, B. Lesche, F. Laurell
{"title":"Creating a second order nonlinearity and a waveguide in soft glasses by poling","authors":"W. Margulis, F. Garcia, E. Hering, I. Carvalho, B. Lesche, F. Laurell","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.btud.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.btud.1","url":null,"abstract":"Soft glasses, such as soda lime are the often used in waveguide fabrication by ion exchange. They are also cheap, readily available, and are potentially a base material for active components in fiber-to-the-home systems. Therefore, waveguide modulators based on poled soda lime glass are of great interest. In this work we demonstrate that it is possible to induce a large second-order optical nonlinearity in soda lime and borosilicate glass with the electro-thermal poling procedure described by Myers et al1. We also demonstrate a scheme based on poling to record single-mode waveguides in soda lime.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114444778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cascaded Raman Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers","authors":"S. Grubb","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.bmc.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.bmc.1","url":null,"abstract":"The recent availability of high power cladding pumped fiber lasers and low loss fiber resonators enabled with fiber Bragg grating technology, have made efficient CW Raman frequency conversion extremely efficient. The technology of cascaded Raman lasers and amplifiers will be reviewed.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"347 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120838447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fibre Grating Devices for Telecommunications Applications","authors":"P. Sansonetti","doi":"10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsua.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/bgppf.1997.jsua.3","url":null,"abstract":"Photosentivity occuring in germanium-doped silica [1] allows, through UV side holography [2], the simple and straightforward realization of permanent refractive index gratings in optical fibres. Low cost, low loss and very efficient all fibre filtering or multiplexing devices can therefore be realized, with extreme interest for future Transparent Optical Networks based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), including chirped grating Chromatic Dispersion Compensator allowing to cope with bit rate increase per channel.","PeriodicalId":182420,"journal":{"name":"Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling in Glass Fibers and Waveguides: Applications and Fundamentals","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115438270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}