Synthesis of long-period fiber gratings with given magnitude and phase profiles

We propose a new method for synthesizing long period fiber gratings. The proposed method which employs the simulated annealing and steepest descent algorithms is capable of controlling the phase as well as the magnitude characteristics. To verify the validity of the proposed method, we have synthesized three simple structures; a single long period fiber gratings structure and two piecewise-uniform long period fiber gratings structures.