Abstract
We report an investigation of thermal properties of long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs) of various periods fabricated in the conventional B-Ge codoped fiber. It has been found that the temperature sensitivity of the LPFGs produced in the B-Ge fiber can be significantly enhanced as compared with the standard telecom fiber. A total of 27.5-nm spectral shift was achieved from only 10 °C change in temperature for an LPFG with 240-μm period, demonstrating a first ever reported high sensitivity of 2.75 nm/°C. Such an LPFG may lead to high-efficiency and low-cost thermal/electrical tunable loss filters or sensors with extremely high-temperature resolution. The nonlinear thermal response of the supersensitive LPG was also reported and first explained.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/68.935814 |
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| Divisions: | Engineering & Applied Sciences > Electrical, electronic & power engineering Engineering & Applied Sciences > Institute of Photonics Engineering & Applied Sciences |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | fiber Bragg gratings,long-period fiber grating,photosensitive fibers,temperature sensors,tunable filters,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) |
| Published Date: | 2001-08 |