Multi-wavelength gratings formed via cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering

Thomas F S Büttner; Irina V Kabakova; Darren D Hudson; Ravi Pant; Enbang Li; Benjamin J Eggleton

doi:10.1364/OE.20.026434

Multi-wavelength gratings formed via cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering

Opt Express. 2012 Nov 19;20(24):26434-40. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.026434.

Authors

Thomas F S Büttner¹, Irina V Kabakova, Darren D Hudson, Ravi Pant, Enbang Li, Benjamin J Eggleton

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. thomasb@physics.usyd.edu.au

PMID: 23187497
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026434

Abstract

We present the experimental observation of multi-wavelength fiber Bragg gratings in As2Se3 fiber. The gratings are internally written via two-photon absorption of 1550 nm pump light and its first and second order Stokes waves generated by cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). We demonstrate a parameter regime that allows for 4 dB grating enhancement by suppression of SBS.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Absorption
Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design
Fiber Optic Technology / instrumentation*
Humans
Light*
Photons*
Refractometry / instrumentation*
Scattering, Radiation*