Development of fiber grating devices for WDM communication and sensor systems

Author

Sang Bae Lee ; Sang Sam Choi

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Center, Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

15-19 July 2001

Abstract

We have developed a variety of fiber grating-based applications such as a multisection long-period grating equalizer, an optical channel-switching filter, and a temperature-independent FBG sensor system for bridge and pile-monitoring, which are the focus of this paper.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; equalisers; fibre optic sensors; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre filters; strain sensors; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM communication; accurate modeling technique; bridge monitoring; chirped fiber Bragg grating; design parameters; multisection long-period grating equalizer; optical channel-switching filter; piecewise-uniform gratings; pile load transfer mechanism; pile-monitoring; simulated annealing; steepest descent minimization; stress distribution; temperature-independent FBG sensor; three-port circulator; transmission filter; Bragg gratings; Equalizers; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber sensors; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Chiba, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6738-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.967897

Filename

967897