Investigation into the power-law dependence of fibre Bragg grating growth

Andrew Lee, Michael J. Withford*, Judith M. Dawes

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Abstract

We have undertaken a detailed experimental and numerical investigation of fibre Bragg grating growth rates over relatively long timescales, in which we consider the influence of zero-order UV irradiation, jitter and drift. In contrast to other studies, our results show that measurements of grating growth dynamics are in good agreement with numerical expressions describing exponential decay of a population of defect sites if the influence of small lateral displacements between the optical fibre and the modulated UV beam (jitter) are accounted for.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)261-269
Number of pages9
JournalOptics Communications
Volume257
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2006

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