Experimental researches and testing of silica twisted six-GeO2-doped core microstructured optical fiber. Part II: research of fiber Bragg grating responses

Abstract

This work presents results of test series, performed for earlier on designed and successfully fabricated twisted silica fewmode microstructured optical fibers (MOF) with six GeO2-doped cores. While Part I introduces results of differential mode delay map measurements, Part II is focused on researches of spectral responses, measured for fiber Bragg gratings, recorded in these multi-core MOFs with core graded refractive index profiles and induced twisting 100 revolutions per meter. Specially setup for spectral response measurement for described complicated fiber optic element was developed, that provides selected alignment of matching singlemode optical fiber with particular single core of MOF via free space and reducing of reflection by precision 8 angle cleaving. Comparing analysis of measured spectral responses confirmed written FBGs in 2 of 6 cores, and demonstrated potentiality of fabricated complicated structure, containing multi-core MOF with FBG, for applications in multichannel fiber optic sensors with spatial division multiplexing technique.