S. A. Vasil'ev, E. M. Dianov, O. I. Medvedkov, V. N. Protopopov, D. M. Costantini, A. Iocco, H. G. Limberger, R.-P. Salathe, “Properties of the cladding modes of an optical fibre excited by refractive-index gratings”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1999, Volume 26, Number 1,Pages <nobr>65

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Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Properties of the cladding modes of an optical fibre excited by refractive-index gratings

S. A. Vasil'ev^a, E. M. Dianov^a, O. I. Medvedkov^a, V. N. Protopopov^a, D. M. Costantini^b, A. Iocco^b, H. G. Limberger^b, R.-P. Salathe^b

^a Fiber Optics Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Institute of Applied Optics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Abstract: The properties of the cladding modes of an optical fibre, excited by photoinduced long-period fibre gratings, were investigated by the near- and far-field methods. It is shown that the cladding modes considered are of the HE_1m type. A satisfactory agreement between the experimental and calculated distributions of the electromagnetic field of the modes is demonstrated. It was found that the propagation length of a cladding mode in the unperturbed fibre reaches 1 m.

PACS: 42.81.Dp, 42.40.Eq, 42.65.Hw

Received: 18.09.1998