Behavior of femtosecond laser-induced eccentric fiber Bragg gratings at very high temperatures.

In this work, eccentric Bragg gratings are photoinscribed in telecommunication-grade optical fibers. They are localized close to the core-cladding interface, yielding strong cladding mode resonance couplings and high photoinduced birefringence. Their transmitted amplitude spectrum is measured with polarized light while they are exposed to temperature changes up to 900°C. Despite the gratings' overall good thermal stability that confirms their robustness for high-temperature refractometry, we report an interesting polarization effect depending on both the cladding mode resonance family and mode order. While the core mode birefringence decreases with growing temperatures, certain cladding mode resonances show an increase in wavelength splitting between their orthogonally polarized components. This differential behavior is of high interest in developing high-resolution, multiparametric sensing platforms.

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