%A Xiaoyan SUN, Peng HUANG, Jiefeng ZHAO, Li WEI, Nan ZHANG, Dengfeng KUANG, Xiaonong ZHU %T Characteristic control of long period fiber grating (LPFG) fabricated by infrared femtosecond laser %0 Journal Article %D 2012 %J Front. Optoelectron. %J Frontiers of Optoelectronics %@ 2095-2759 %R 10.1007/s12200-012-0270-1 %P 334-340 %V 5 %N 3 %U {https://journal.hep.com.cn/foe/EN/10.1007/s12200-012-0270-1 %8 2012-09-05 %X

Long period fiber gratings (LPFGs) with different spectral characteristics were fabricated with 1 kHz, 50 fs laser pulses. The contrast of resonant rejection band can be significantly increased by a proper amount of axial stress along a fiber during laser writing or post-processing with lower energy density laser irradiation. Variations of focal condition, pulse energy of laser irradiation and the number of grating periods lead to the generation of resonance rejection band of LPFGs from single-peak to multi-peak plus larger out-of-band loss. The out-of-band loss is primarily caused by Mie scattering from the laser processed cites, and it can be reduced by decreasing the duty cycle of grating pitch instead of lowing down the actual power of laser irradiation.