title: Fabrication of Polymer Optical Fibre (POF) Gratings.
abstract: Gratings inscribed in polymer optical fibre (POF) have attracted remarkable interest for many potential applications due to their distinctive properties. This paper overviews the current state of fabrication of POF gratings since their first demonstration in 1999. In particular we summarize and discuss POF materials, POF photosensitivity, techniques and issues of fabricating POF gratings, as well as various types of POF gratings.
authors.affiliation: Photonics & Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. yanhua.luo1@unsw.edu.au.|State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201600, China. yanhua.luo1@unsw.edu.au.
authors.forename: Yanhua
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China. yanbinbin@bupt.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Binbin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China. zqjm@ustc.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Qijin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Photonics & Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. g.peng@unsw.edu.au.
authors.forename: Gang-Ding
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China. wenjx@shu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jianxiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of In-fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China. zhangjianzhong@hrbeu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jianzhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: POF gratings; grating fabrication; phase mask; photosensitivity; point-by-point; polymer optical fibre (POF); sensor