Abstract
We present what is to our knowledge the first demonstration of a tunable fiber Bragg grating device in polymer optical fiber that utilizes a thin-film resistive heater deposited on the surface of the fiber. The polymer fiber was coated via photochemical deposition of a Pd/Cu metallic layer with a procedure induced by vacuum-ultraviolet radiation at room temperature. The resulting device, when wavelength tuned via joule heating, underwent a wavelength shift of 2 nm for a moderate input power of 160 mW, a wavelength to input power coefficient of-13.4 pm/mW, and a time constant of 1.7 s-1.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 214–216 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 12 Jan 2007 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2007 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- tunable fiber Bragg grating device
- polymer optical fiber
- thin-film resistive heater
- surface
- fiber
- photochemical deposition
- Pd/Cu metallic layer
- vacuum-ultraviolet radiation