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Characteristics and applications of tilted fiber Bragg gratings

YONG ZHAO1,* , QI WANG1, HE HUANG1

Affiliation

  1. Northeastern University, School of Information Science and Engineering, Shenyang 110819, China

Abstract

In this paper, the fabrication methods and spectral characteristics of tilted fiber Bragg gratings(TFBG) are described. The principles of coupling to cladding modes and radiation modes are mainly investigated. The polarization dependent characteristics of TFBG are also emphasized. According to these optical properties introduced above, examples are given to illustrate the various applications of TFBG in the investigation of sensors, interrogators, gain flattened fiber amplifiers, optical fiber filters, polarimeters, polarization-dependent loss equalizers and so on. The potential feasibility of cooperating TFBG with other sensing mechanism(such as SPR) is also discussed..

Keywords

Tilted fiber Bragg gratings, Mode coupling, Polarization, Optical fiber sensor, Optical fiber devices.

Submitted at: Nov. 22, 2010
Accepted at: Nov. 25, 2010

Citation

YONG ZHAO, QI WANG, HE HUANG, Characteristics and applications of tilted fiber Bragg gratings, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 12, Iss. 12, pp. 2343-2354 (2010)