Review Article

Gratings in Structured Optical Fibres

Figure 11

Temperature cycling of hydrogen-loaded 12-ring photonic crystal fibre grating (Figure 1(b)). The initial drop in Bragg wavelength arises from outdiffusion of the hydrogen, which raises the effective mode index by nearly . Beyond this, the index change is stable after repeated cycling from room temperature to 300°C. There is no observed hysteresis [39].
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