This work presents a formation method of mechanically-induced long-period fiber gratings using laminated plates. The mechanically-induced long-period fiber grating is temporarily inscribed by compressing the optical fiber between a flat plate and the proposed laminated plate. In turn, the new laminated plate consists of a parallel assembling of single-edged utility blades. We present the experimental characterization of mechanically-induced long-period fiber gratings while employing three laminated plates with a period of 480 ± 20 µm and low duty cycles. These mechanically-induced long-period fiber gratings display a leading rejection band (>15 dB) with a couple of shallow rejection bands (<2 dB) in the range of 1100–1700 nm. This spectral behavior is due to the new mechanical fabrication process that is based on laminated plates that we have proposed, which consists of piling multiple blades with trapezoidal edges that are polished with different levels to obtain different duty-cycles. With the proposed method, we can obtain values of duty-cycles around 10%, much lower than those obtained using traditional methods. Additionally, with this new method, the required mechanical pressure to form the grating is remarkably reduced, which minimizes the probability of the optical fiber failure in the mechanically-induced long-period fiber gratings (MI-LPFGs). Moreover, the proposed mechanically-induced long-period fiber gratings with a single rejection band open the feasibility to implement coarse wavelength division multiplexing systems that are based on long-period fiber gratings.
A modal interferometer by a single mechanically induced long-period fiber grating (MI-LPFG) using a half-length coating fiber is presented. The coating material used for this Letter is a film of silica nanoparticles doped with an organic chromophore. The silica nanoparticles, with diameters within the range of 40-50 nm, were deposited over 3.5 cm length of fiber by the dip-coating method, forming a film with a thickness between 500 and 1250 nm. Then the modal interferometer was implemented by inscribing the MI-LPFG over the coated fiber section and a similar fiber length of the uncoated fiber. The experimental results show high-contrast transmission bands, where the position and depth of the absorption envelope band are finely selected by the grating period, the pressure applied, and the film thickness. The novel modal interferometer architecture based on a single MI-LPFG, combined with a functionalized nanoparticles coating film, offers an attractive platform for the development of fiber sensors and other fiber-based devices.
A method for tuning the transmission characteristics of arc-induced long-period fiber gratings by local heating is presented. A traveling burner, produced by the combustion of a mixture of oxygen and butane, locally heats the longperiod grating producing a wavelength shift of the resonant peaks. We have found that the resonant wavelengths are blue-shifted during the first 7 round trips of the flame, but when heating process continues the notches shifts toward longer wavelengths. A fine and long range tuning of the resonant wavelengths up to 120 nm can be achieved without substantial degradation on the grating characteristics. The process is repeatable and only takes a few minutes.
An explicit method for determination of the Mueller matrix elements of a commercial long-period fiber grating inscribed with ultraviolet CW laser irradiation (UV-LPFG) is presented. From the Mueller matrix obtained for such UV-LPFG, the full polarimetric response of the grating was found. Our polarimetric analysis was focused mainly on the polarization-dependent loss and other polarimetric properties, such as the polarizance, the depolarization index, and the diattenuation parameters. The full polarimetric analysis allows us to obtain more complete information than the usually reported ones, in which only two orthogonal linear polarizations are considered; for example, with our analysis, we prove that a small depolarization effect is inherent in UV-LPFG and that attenuation depends on the polarization state. This additional polarimetric information could be useful to control the output LPFG signal, for instance, for the realization of wavelength switchable or Q-switched fiber lasers, among other applications.
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