Novel tunable phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating implemented by adjusting gap between two fibers

A novel method to realize the adjustable phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is proposed in this paper. By adjusting the air gap between two identical FBG, the phase shift has been changed, and the transmission characteristics of such phase-shifted FBG can be tuned. Both theoretical simulation and experimental measurement have been carried out to verify and demonstrate the idea. It has been shown the proposed tuning method is effective and the experimental results agree well with the theoretical prediction.