Fabrication of Polymer Optical Fibre (POF) Gratings

Yanhua Luo; Binbin Yan; Qijin Zhang; Gang-Ding Peng; Jianxiang Wen; Jianzhong Zhang

doi:10.3390/s17030511

Fabrication of Polymer Optical Fibre (POF) Gratings

Sensors (Basel). 2017 Mar 4;17(3):511. doi: 10.3390/s17030511.

Authors

Yanhua Luo^{1

2}, Binbin Yan³, Qijin Zhang⁴, Gang-Ding Peng⁵, Jianxiang Wen⁶, Jianzhong Zhang⁷

Affiliations

¹ Photonics & Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. yanhua.luo1@unsw.edu.au.
² State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201600, China. yanhua.luo1@unsw.edu.au.
³ State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China. yanbinbin@bupt.edu.cn.
⁴ CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China. zqjm@ustc.edu.cn.
⁵ Photonics & Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. g.peng@unsw.edu.au.
⁶ Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China. wenjx@shu.edu.cn.
⁷ Key Lab of In-fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China. zhangjianzhong@hrbeu.edu.cn.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: POF gratings; grating fabrication; phase mask; photosensitivity; point-by-point; polymer optical fibre (POF); sensor.

Publication types

Review