• Characterisation of Silicon (Si) fibre Bragg grating in near-infrared band for strain and temperature sensing 

      Theodosiou, Antreas; Kalli, Kyriacos; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Fokine, Michael; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This letter describes fibre Bragg grating inscription in crystalline siliconcore fibre using visible light femtosecond laser pulses. The femtosecond pulses at 517 nm propagate through the transparent silica glass cladding ...
    • CO2 laser annealed SiGe core optical fibers with radial Ge concentration gradients 

      Wu, Wei; Balci, Mustafa H.; Song, Seunghan; liu, chunxin; Fokine, Michael; Laurell, Fredrik; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      CO2 laser annealing of SiGe core, glass-clad optical fibers is a powerful technique for the production of single-crystal cores with spatially varying Ge concentrations. Laser power, laser scan speed and cooling air flow ...
    • Crystalline GaSb-core optical fibers with room-temperature photoluminescence 

      Song, Seunghan; Healy, Noel; Svendsen, Silje; Österberg, Ulf; Cuervo Covian, Alejandra; Liu, Jifeng; Peacock, Anna; Ballato, John; Laurell, Fredrik; Fokine, Michael; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Glass-clad, GaSb-core fibers were drawn and subsequently laser annealed. The asdrawn fibers were found to be polycrystalline, possess Sb inclusions, and have oxide contamination concentrations of less than 3 at%. Melting ...
    • Ge-capped SiGe core optical fibers 

      Wu, Wei; Balci, Mustafa H.; Muhlberger, Korbinian; Fokine, Michael; Laurell, Fredrik; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      CO2 laser processing offers the possibility to inscribe structures within glass-clad SiGe-core fibers by altering the spatial distribution of the Si and Ge. Spatial segregation of Ge to the end of a fiber is shown via ...
    • Laser recrystallization and inscription of compositional microstructures in crystalline SiGe-core fibres 

      Coucheron, David Andre; Fokine, Michael; Patil, Nilesh; Breiby, Dag Werner; Buset, Ole Tore; Healy, Noel; Peacock, Anna; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Jones, Maxwell; Ballato, John; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Glass fibres with silicon cores have emerged as a versatile platform for all-optical processing, sensing and microscale optoelectronic devices. Using SiGe in the core extends the accessible wavelength range and potential ...
    • Laser restructuring and photoluminescence of glass-clad GaSb/Si-core optical fibres 

      Song, Seunghan; Lønsethagen, Kristin; Laurell, Fredrik; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Fokine, Michael; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Semiconductor-core optical fibres have potential applications in photonics and optoelectronics due to large nonlinear optical coefficients and an extended transparency window. Laser processing can impose large temperature ...
    • Laser structuring, stress modification and Bragg grating inscription in silicon-core glass fibers 

      Fokine, Michael; Theodosiou, Antreas; Song, Seunghan; Hawkins, Thomas A.; Ballato, John; Kalli, Kyriacos; Gibson, Ursula (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Semiconductor core fibers have numerous potential applications in optoelectronics and photonics, and the key to realizing these opportunities is controlled processing of the material. We present results on laser treatments ...