title: Optically reconfigurable azobenzene polymer-based fiber Bragg filter.
abstract: Optically writable, thermally erasable surface relief gratings in thin Disperse Red 1 polymethyl methacrylate azopolymer films were used to demonstrate an arbitrarily reconfigurable fiber Bragg filter. Gratings were optically written on azopolymer-coated side-polished fiber blocks, and a write-erase-write cycle was demonstrated. Finite difference time domain simulations reveal that this optically reconfigurable device concept can be optimized in a silicon-on-insulator waveguide platform.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
authors.forename: Rune
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lausten
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rochon
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cheben
authors.forename: Siegfried
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Janz
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Desjardins
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ripmeester
authors.forename: Torsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Siebert
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stolow