Abstract
Rapid cooling, or quenching, during regeneration of seed gratings in standard single-mode silica optical fiber is explored. It is shown that regeneration can be broken up into stages in time. The novel, to the best of our knowledge, method of “split annealing” offers a unique tool for optimizing regeneration and studying fundamental glass science within a one-dimensional bi-material system. We demonstrate regeneration at temperatures as high as T = 1200°C for the first time as well as opening up an approach suited to batch processing of regenerated gratings.
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