Abstract

We report on the fabrication, experimental measurement, and numerical simulation of sol-gel diffraction grating structures deposited on the end-face of a single mode optical fiber. Using the imprint method, we manufactured surface relief grating structures in four configurations with different grating-relative-to-fiber arrangements. We demonstrate the high quality of the fabricated structures based on atomic force microscopy imaging and their operational characteristics, presenting measured and simulated far-field intensity distributions. Using a numerical model, we simulated the diffraction patterns in the far-field. We obtained strong agreement between the results of the simulations and the experiments in terms of the angular positions of the diffraction peaks. We also investigated the tolerance of fabricated structures to high-power lasers. Among the proposed structures, the most intriguing is the grism fabricated on a fiber end-face using sol-gel imprint technology for the first time, to the best of our knowledge.

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