Fiber Bragg grating technology fundamentals and overview

The historical beginnings of photosensitivity and fiber Bragg grating (FBG) technology are recounted. The basic techniques for fiber grating fabrication, their characteristics, and the fundamental properties of fiber gratings are described. The many applications of fiber grating technology are tabulated, and some selected applications are briefly described.

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[68]  15.3-dB power-budget improvement by remotely pumping an EDFA with a fiber-grating pump reflector , 1995 .

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[71]  D N Payne,et al.  Femtosecond pulse amplification in cladding-pumped fibers. , 1995, Optics letters.

[72]  D C Johnson,et al.  Variable-spectral-=response optical waveguide Bragg grating filters for optical signal processing. , 1995, Optics letters.

[73]  Michael J. Steel,et al.  Nonlinear Optics in Fiber Gratings , 1996 .

[74]  Alan D. Kersey,et al.  Progress toward the development of practical fiber Bragg grating instrumentation systems , 1996, Optics & Photonics.

[75]  Richard A. Soref.  Fiber grating prism for true time delay beamsteering , 1996 .

[76]  Planar waveguide Mach-Zender bandpass filter fabricated with single exposure UV-induced gratings , 1996, Optical Fiber Communications, OFC..

[77]  Jacques Albert,et al.  Integrated external cavity laser composed of spot-size converted LD and UV written grating in silica waveguide on Si , 1996 .

[78]  Gerald Meltz,et al.  Overview of fiber grating-based sensors , 1996, Optics & Photonics.

[79]  Lin Zhang,et al.  Uv-written in-fibre Bragg gratings , 1996 .

[80]  Akira Inoue,et al.  Optical fiber identification system using fiber Bragg gratings , 1996, Optical Fiber Communications, OFC..

[81]  Wideband and highly reflective step-chirped fibre grating filter embedded in an optical fibre connector , 1996 .

[82]  L. Reekie,et al.  Novel add/drop filters for wavelength-division-multiplexing optical fiber systems using a Bragg grating assisted mismatched coupler , 1996, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[83]  Javier Martí,et al.  Iterative solution to the Gel'Fand-Levitan-Marchenko coupled equations and application to synthesis of fiber gratings , 1996 .

[84]  Bertrand Poumellec,et al.  The UV-induced refractive index grating in Ge: preforms: additional CW experiments and the macroscopic origin of the change in index , 1996 .

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[87]  William W. Morey,et al.  Coupling characteristics of photo-induced Bragg gratings in depressed- and matched-cladding fibre , 1996 .

[88]  A. Kersey.  A Review of Recent Developments in Fiber Optic Sensor Technology , 1996 .

[89]  EDFA GAIN EQUALIZER EMPLOYING LINEARLY CHIRPED APODIZED FIBER GRATINGS , 1996 .

[90]  Using fibre gratings to stabilise laser diode wavelength under modulation for atmospheric lidar transmitters , 1996 .

[91]  N. S. Bergano,et al.  Long-period fiber-grating-based gain equalizers. , 1996, Optics letters.

[92]  W. Nowak,et al.  Compact all-fiber add-drop-multiplexer using fiber Bragg gratings , 1996, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[93]  Beatriz Ortega,et al.  Chirped fibre Bragg gratings for phased-array antennas , 1997 .

[94]  E. Friebele,et al.  Index structure of fiber Bragg gratings in Ge-SiO(2) fibers. , 1997, Optics letters.

[95]  J. R. Pedrazzani,et al.  Reflective-mode conversion with UV-induced phase gratings in two-mode fiber , 1997, Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference (.

[96]  Dominique Bosc,et al.  Temperature and polarisation insensitive Bragg gratings realised on silica waveguide on silicon , 1997 .

[97]  Chun-Kit Chan,et al.  A practical passive surveillance scheme for optically amplified passive branched optical networks , 1997, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

[98]  H. Zmuda,et al.  Photonic beamformer for phased array antennas using a fiber grating prism , 1997, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.