• DocumentCode
    1269791
  • Title

    Investigating Transverse Loading Characteristics of Microstructured Fiber Bragg Gratings With an Active Fiber Depolarizer

  • Author

    Wang, Yiping ; Bartelt, Hartmut ; Ecke, Wolfgang ; Schroeder, Kerstin ; Willsch, Reinhardt ; Kobelke, Jens ; Rothhardt, Manfred ; Latka, Ines ; Brueckner, Sven

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Photonic Technol., Jena, Germany
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    19
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    1450
  • Lastpage
    1452
  • Abstract
    In this letter, the transverse loading characteristics of Bragg gratings in microstructured optical fibers were investigated by use of an active fiber depolarizer. Increasing transverse load shifts the Bragg wavelength to longer wavelengths; its sensitivity to transverse load decreases with increasing volume of air holes around the fiber core. Such transverse loading characteristics were found to be dependent on the fiber orientations.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; optical fibres; optical polarisers; Bragg wavelength; fiber Bragg gratings; fiber depolarizer; microstructured optical fibers; Depolarizers; fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); optical fiber sensors; photonic crystal fibers (PCFs);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2009.2028308
  • Filename
    5184895