Abstract

Instead of inscribing the discrete phases into each local period of the seed HLPG, an equivalent approach to realize the phase-only sampled multichannel helical long-period fiber grating (HLPG) has been demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally which is realized by superposing the so-called sampling HLPGs with the seed HLPG in a same region of the fiber. The proposed approach can greatly facilitate the fabrication processes of the multichannel HLPG by using the direct CO₂ laser writing technique, meanwhile it enables to provide much more design and fabrication flexibilities for high channel-count HLPG than the previous methods. As examples, a 3-channel and a 5-channel HLPG have been successfully demonstrated. Moreover, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes inherently existed at all channels of the fabricated HLPG have also been verified, which highlights that the proposed HLPGs could find application to multi-wavelength OAM mode converter as well.

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