Highly photosensitive polymethyl methacrylate microstructured polymer optical fiber with doped core

D. Sáez-Rodríguez; Kristian Nielsen; Henrik K. Rasmussen; Ole Bang; D. J. Webb

doi:10.1364/OL.38.003769

Highly photosensitive polymethyl methacrylate microstructured polymer optical fiber with doped core

D. Sáez-Rodríguez, Kristian Nielsen, Henrik K. Rasmussen, Ole Bang, D. J. Webb

Aston University

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In this Letter, we report the fabrication of a highly photosensitive, microstructured polymer optical fiber using benzyl dimethyl ketal as a dopant, as well as the inscription of a fiber Bragg grating in the fiber. A refractive index change in the core of at least 3.2×10⁻⁴ has been achieved, providing a grating with a strong transmission rejection of −23 dB with an inscription time of only 13 min. The fabrication method has a big advantage compared to doping step index fiber since it enables doping of the fiber without using extra dopants to compensate for the index reduction in the core introduced by the photosensitive agent.

Original language	English
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	38
Issue number	19
Pages (from-to)	3769-3772
ISSN	0146-9592
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.003769
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Highly photosensitive polymethyl methacrylate microstructured polymer optical fiber with doped core

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