| Literature DB >> 24514999 |
Mathieu Gagné, Sébastien Loranger, Jerome Lapointe, Raman Kashyap.
Abstract
The fabrication and characterization of high quality ultra-long (up to 1m) fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is reported. A moving phase mask and an electro-optic phase-modulation (EOPM) based interferometer are used with a high precision 1-meter long translation stage and compared. A novel interferometer position feedback scheme to simplify the fabrication process is proposed and analyzed. The ultra-long uniform FBGs show near perfect characteristics of a few picometers bandwidth, symmetrical, near theory-matching group-delay and transmission spectra. Grating characterization using optical backscattering reflectometry and chirped FBGs are also demonstrated. Limitations of the schemes are discussed.Mesh:
Year: 2014 PMID: 24514999 DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000387
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Opt Express ISSN: 1094-4087 Impact factor: 3.894