Extreme Silica Optical Fibre Gratings

John Canning; Michael Stevenson; Somnath Bandyopadhyay; Kevin Cook

doi:10.3390/s8106448

Extreme Silica Optical Fibre Gratings

Sensors (Basel). 2008 Oct 20;8(10):6448-6452. doi: 10.3390/s8106448.

Authors

John Canning¹, Michael Stevenson², Somnath Bandyopadhyay^{3

4}, Kevin Cook⁵

Affiliations

¹ Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories/ School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Australia. j.canning@usyd.edu.au.
² Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories/ School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Australia. m.stevenson@usyd.edu.au.
³ Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories/ School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Australia. somnath@cgcri.res.in.
⁴ Fibre Optics Laboratories / Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute, Kolkata, India. somnath@cgcri.res.in.
⁵ Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories/ School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Australia. k.cook@usyd.edu.au.

Abstract

A regenerated optical fibre Bragg grating that survives temperature cycling up to 1,295°C is demonstrated. A model based on seeded crystallisation or amorphisation is proposed.

Keywords: Regenerated gratings; fibre Bragg gratings; temperature sensing.