An extremely short long-period grating (LPG) with strong resonance has been developed in a large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber (PCF) by use of the heat source of a CO2 laser. We believe that such a LPG in pure silica PCF is the first example to be obtained with the point-by-point technique. The fabrication method is simple and repeatable. The resulting LPG has 8 periods, written by a CO2 laser, within a 2.8-mm length of fiber, which yields a deep notch of core-cladding mode coupling of -31.5 dB at the telecommunication wavelength of 1529.2 nm, with a FWHM of approximately 0.7 nm. The principal advantages of this LPG are that it is practical, cost effective, and compact.
Silica photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is a new type of fiber that has an array of microscopic air holes running along its length. Splicing PCF to standard single-mode fiber (SMF) is a challenging task, but it is also important because of the potential broad applications. Proper splicing of SMF to PCF is imperative in order to avoid collapsing of the PCF on the air holes; however, the two types of fiber require different laser powers for melting. A laser splicing system is developed to demonstrate its effectiveness at splicing between the large-mode-area PCF and SMF with low splice loss.
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