Title :
Progress in long period fiber gratings
Author :
Espindola, Roland0 P.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Long period fiber gratings have been used in a variety of applications such as gain equalization filters for optical amplifiers, band rejection filters and sensors for temperature and strain. Among these applications, gain equalization is the most demanding and interesting because of the impact of broadband gain-flattened EDFA have on next generation DWDM communications systems. I review the recent advances in long period fiber gratings including new fabrication techniques and improved temperature sensitivity
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; equalisers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication; wavelength division multiplexing; band rejection filters; broadband gain-flattened EDFA; gain equalisation filters; gain equalization; improved temperature sensitivity; long period fiber gratings; next generation DWDM communications system; optical amplifiers; optical fibre fabrication techniques; review; strain sensors; temperature sensors; Broadband amplifiers; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber sensors; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Temperature sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.737827
