Fabricating fiber Bragg gratings with two phase masks based on reconstruction-equivalent-chirp technique

Opt Express. 2012 Jan 30;20(3):2240-5. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.002240.

Abstract

Based on reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique, a novel solution for fabricating low-cost long fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) with desired properties is proposed and initially studied. A proof-of-concept experiment is demonstrated with two conventional uniform phase masks and a submicron-precision translation stage, successfully. It is shown that the original phase shift (OPS) caused by phase mismatch of the two phase masks can be compensated by the equivalent phase shift (EPS) at the ±1st channels of sampled FBGs, separately. Furthermore, as an example, a π phase-shifted FBG of about 90 mm is fabricated by using these two 50mm-long uniform phase masks based on the presented method.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Membranes, Artificial*
  • Refractometry / instrumentation*

Substances

  • Membranes, Artificial