High-speed fibre Bragg grating sensor interrogation using dispersion compensation fibre

A novel high-speed fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensor interrogator using dispersion-compensating fibre is proposed and demonstrated. The wavelength shift measurement of the FBG sensor is converted to time-domain measurement. The high-speed potential of this scheme was investigated experimentally, demonstrating an effective sampling speed of 2.44 megasamples per second.     

Er-doped superfluorescent fibre source with enhanced mean-wavelength stability using chirped fibre grating

An Er-doped superfluorescent fibre source with enhanced mean-wavelength stability 2 ppm over the 0degC to 70degC range using chirped fibre grating is demonstrated. The effects of the temperature of the fibre, the pump power, the pump wavelength, the pump state of polarisation, and the feedback power have been considered and minimised with corresponding techniques.     

Wide-stopband chirped fibre moire grating transmission filters

Efficient, wide-stopband fibre transmission filters with single narrow transmission bands produced using multiply exposed chirped fibre grating resonators are reported. Tailored combinations of these structures with additional chirped gratings have achieved single passband transmission with an effective finesse of 48. This demonstrates the feasibility of fabricating all-fibre transmission filters with arbitrary passband/stopband combinations     

Continuous photonic microwave true-time delay using tapered chirped fibre Bragg grating

A photonic microwave true-time delay using a tapered chirped fibre Bragg grating is proposed and fabricated. A resistive heating electrode coated on the tapered fibre and a single-wavelength light was incorporated to control the time delay continuously without any mechanical perturbation and moving. It was achieved by adjusting the reflection positions of the optical signal carrying the microwave signal from within the tapered grating via the thermo-optic effect. The measured time delay was /spl sim/120 ps with electrical power consumption of 250 mW.     

Extended range interrogation of wavelength division multiplexed fibre Bragg grating sensors using arrayed waveguide grating

A technique for interrogating multiplexed fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors using an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is described. The approach considerably extends the sensing range from that achieved previously, while providing a strain resolution of 17n/spl epsiv///spl radic/Hz at 30 Hz.     

Time delay measurement of chirped fibre grating using bidirectional modulation of Mach-Zehnder modulator

A simple method for time delay measurement of a chirped fibre grating by using bidirectional modulation of a Mach-Zehnder modulator is proposed. The bidirectionally modulated light with time difference produces an interference fringe in the RF domain. The time delay of a chirped fibre grating can be obtained by measuring the period of the RF interference fringe from different wavelengths.     

Spectral filtering using fibre bragg grating embedded sagnac loop mirror

An approach to achieve spectral filtering is proposed, using a fibre Bragg grating (FBG) embedded polarisation maintaining fibre Sagnac loop mirror (SLM) through temperature tuning. The opposite temperature sensitivities of the FBG Bragg resonance wavelengths and the interferometric peaks of the fibre SLM, as well as their pronounced difference in bandwidth, provide an opportunity to realise spectral filtering.     

Matched-filter interrogation technique for fibre Bragg gratingarrays

A technique for the demodulation of fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensor arrays that uses a matched grating array to optically filter and track wavelength shifts from the FBG sensors is demonstrated. The use of matched grating arrays in the serial configuration represents an efficient and potentially low-cost interrogation technique for FBG sensors     

Self-mixing based interrogation techniques for high-reflectivity fibre Bragg grating sensors

A novel interrogation technique for fibre Bragg gratings, based on the self-mixing effect in strong feedback regime and intensity detection, is demonstrated through experimental measurements. The application of an appropriate spectral estimator permits transferring the analysis into the frequency domain, leading to the realisation of a power drift-tolerant strain sensor.     

Tunable chirped fibre Bragg grating device controlled by variablemagnetic fields

A novel dynamic chirping fibre Bragg grating device based on a magnetic field applied to a magnetostrictive transducer capable of tuning its dispersion is presented. Chirping ranges up to 300 ps/nm have been demonstrated, which are suitable for several applications such as tunable transversal filtering and dynamic dispersion compensation     

Dispersion compensation over 270 km at 10 Gbit/s using anoffset-core chirped fibre Bragg grating

A 120 mm long fibre Bragg grating, adjustably chirped by an offset-core technique, compensates for dispersion in a 10 Gbit/s optical communication system operating at 1054 μm over 270 km of non-dispersion-shifted fibre. Simultaneous compensation of fibre dispersion and source chirp in a directly modulated system is also described     

啁啾光栅解调的准分布式光纤Bragg光栅传感器

为了提高光纤Bragg光栅(FBG)的应用范围.提出一种线性啁啾光栅(CFBG)解调的准分布式FBG传感系统.利用波导理论分析了CFBG特性;利用传输矩阵法推导了CFBG反射谱模型及波长与相位延迟的关系,并给出了相位延迟曲线.实验表明:所设计的系统应变测量范围为0～2000 με,温度测最范围为0～80℃;相位变化与被...     

Fabrication of chirped fibre gratings using etched tapers

A technique for fabricating fibre gratings with an accurately controlled chirp profile is demonstrated. The technique involves writing a grating over a section of fibre, the cladding of which has been tapered by etching it in HF acid. A strain gradient along the taper is used to produce the chirp either during or after writing. Linearly chirped gratings with bandwidths up to 4.8 nm have been demonstrated. Transmission filters have also been demonstrated when a step is made in the taper     

Continuously tunable photonic microwave true-time delay based on tunable chirped fibre Bragg grating

A simple scheme for the photonic microwave true-time delay with high tunability based on a tunable chirped fibre Bragg grating without centre wavelength shift is experimentally demonstrated. A large dynamic range of true-time delay from 20 to 200 ps was achieved for a microwave signal carried over an optical signal.     

Spectrally flattened phase-locked multi-carrier light generator with phase modulators and chirped fibre Bragg grating

Described is a phase-locked multi-carrier light generator with a flattened spectral envelope that contains two phase modulators and a dispersion medium. By adopting a chirped fibre Bragg grating as a dispersion medium instead of a long normal dispersion fibre, the stability of the optical output spectrum can be increased and the size of the multi-carrier light generator reduced. A prototype has been built with this configuration, that generates a 61 carrier light with a power deviation of less than 8 dB.     

A fiber Bragg grating sensor demodulation technique using apolarization maintaining fiber loop mirror

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple, passive, and self-referencing wavelength shift detection scheme for use in fiber Bragg grating sensing systems. The demodulation system is based on the interference between two modes in a polarization maintaining fiber loop mirror. Although it involves the use of an interference technique, it is stable compared with other conventional interference demodulators     

A folded-type integrated-optic spectrum analyzer using butt-coupled chirped grating lenses

A folded-type integrated-optic spectrum analyzer (IOSA) using reflection-type chirped grating lenses butt-coupled to a LiNbO3waveguide Bragg cell is presented. The lenses can be easily fabricated by the well-established planar process, and the IOSA has good performance as well as a reduced device length. The spectrum analyzer function of 4.0 MHz resolution in 95-345 MHz RF frequency range is demonstrated.     

Characterisation of a fibre Raman oscillator using fibre grating reflectors

We have constructed a completely integrated fibre Raman oscillator using two fibre grating reflectors. This was synchronously mode-locked using a CW mode-locked Nd:YAG laser operating at 1.06?m. Spectral and temporal characteristics of the Raman oscillator are presented.     

Narrow line semiconductor laser using fibre grating

A narrow linewidth, low chirp, wavelength selectable, packaged alternative to current DFB structures has been developed which employs a fibre reflection grating incorporated in the fibre pigtail. The wavelength of the packaged device can be determined by the appropriate choice of fibre grating coupled to the antireflection coated facet of a 1.55 mu m BH laser. Linewidths of less than 50 kHz, sidemode suppression of more than 30 dB and chirp when modulated at 1.2 Gbit/s of <0.5 MHz have been demonstrated.<>     

Simultaneous interrogation of fiber Bragg grating sensors using anacoustooptic tunable filter

We describe a novel technique to provide demultiplexing of fiber Bragg grating sensors, interrogated using interferometric wavelength shift detection. Amplitude modulation of multiple radio frequency driving signals allows an acoustooptic tunable filter to provide wavelength demultiplexing. We demonstrated a noise limited strain resolution of 150 nanostrain/√(Hz) and a crosstalk better than -50 dB