High peak power laser systems of up to petawatt [1] are based on chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique [2]. In the CPA laser system, ultrashort pulses from an oscillator are first stretched below the nonlinear pulse distortion threshold to reduce the peak power and the amplified pulses are recompressed at the output by a compressor. Stable ultrashort pulse oscillator is necessary for CPA ...

The influence of the fiber geometry on the point-by-point inscription of fiber Bragg gratings using a femtosecond laser is highlighted. Fiber Bragg gratings with high spectral quality and strong first-order Bragg resonances within the C-band are achieved by optimizing the inscription process. Large birefringence (1.2x10(-4)) and high degree of polarization-dependent index modulation are observe...

A high power polarization maintaining femtosecond Tm-doped fiber laser system is demonstrated. A chirped fiber Bragg grating with normal dispersion was used to compensate the anomalous dispersion from the regular fiber in the 2 µm seed oscillator to generate mode locked pulses with a pulse repetition rate of 30.84 MHz. After chirped pulse amplification, an amplified power of 78 W was obtained. ...

The subject of this thesis is the design, analysis, fabrication, and characterization of integrated Bragg grating optical filters. We begin by describing the design and analysis of three essential building blocks needed for integrated Bragg grating filters: waveguides, directional couplers and Bragg gratings. Next, we describe and implement a flexible fabrication methodology for building integr...

This paper presents the design and simulation of a rectangular plate optical pressure sensor waveguide. The waveguide has a nano-scale Bragg grating introduced on the upper half area. The Bragg grating shows a considerable deformation, when it is subjected to tangential strain, which forms the basic sensing principal for the design. The free space wavelength of 1.55μm and Bragg spacing of 0.5μm...

The objective of the present study is to examine behaviors chirped optical solitons in fiber Bragg gratings (BGs) with dispersive reflectivity. form nonlinear refractive index represents polynomial law nonlinearity. By virtue phase-matching condition, discussed model coupled Schrödinger equation reduced an integrable form. Consequently, having various profiles such as W-shaped, bright, dark, ki...