Abstract

Sapphire fiber Bragg gratings (SFBGs) inscribed by using femtosecond laser point-by-point (PbP) technology typically have an extremely low reflectivity due to the limited cross-sectional area of refractive index modulations (RIMs) created in sapphire fiber. Hence, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a filamentation process for fabricating PbP SFBGs. This approach provides an efficient method for producing SFBGs at various Bragg wavelengths with a higher reflectivity, since the filament tracks could enlarge the cross-sectional area of RIMs. The influences of the pulse energy and the focal depth on the generation and morphology of the filament tracks were studied, and after optimizing these parameters, high-quality filament tracks with a length of 90 µm and a width of 1.4 µm were produced into sapphire fiber with a diameter of 100 µm. These filament tracks were precisely assembled in sapphire fiber, generating an SFBG with a reflectivity of 2.3%. The total fabrication time for this SFBG only requires ${\sim}{1.1}\;{\rm s}$. Subsequently, a wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) SFBG array consisting of five SFBGs was efficiently constructed. Moreover, the high-temperature response of the SFBG array was investigated and the experimental results showed that the SFBG array can withstand a high temperature of 1600°C. Such a WDM SFBG array could serve as quasi-distributed high-temperature sensor which will be promising in many areas, i.e., metallurgical, chemical, and aviation industries.

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