Fabrication of Polymer Optical Fibre (POF) Gratings
Yanhua Luo,
Binbin Yan,
Qijin Zhang,
Gang-Ding Peng,
Jianxiang Wen,
Jianzhong Zhang
Affiliations
Yanhua Luo
Photonics & Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Binbin Yan
State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Qijin Zhang
CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Gang-Ding Peng
Photonics & Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Jianxiang Wen
Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
Jianzhong Zhang
Key Lab of In-fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Gratings inscribed in polymer optical fibre (POF) have attracted remarkable interest for many potential applications due to their distinctive properties. This paper overviews the current state of fabrication of POF gratings since their first demonstration in 1999. In particular we summarize and discuss POF materials, POF photosensitivity, techniques and issues of fabricating POF gratings, as well as various types of POF gratings.
