Spectral response of long-period fiber gratings to cladding refractive index perturbation

Zhihong Li; Tao Chen; Zhaogang Zhang; Yanming Zhou; Dan Li; Zhong Xie

doi:10.1117/1.OE.54.9.096105

11 September 2015 Spectral response of long-period fiber gratings to cladding refractive index perturbation

Zhihong Li, Tao Chen, Zhaogang Zhang, Yanming Zhou, Dan Li, Zhong Xie

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 54, Issue 9, 096105 (September 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.9.096105

Abstract

_{The spectral response of long-period fiber gratings can be tailored by the cladding index perturbation (C-LPFGs) induced by written methods. Here, we investigate theoretically the effects of radial dependence and the magnitude of the cladding index modulation on the transmission spectra of C-LPFGs. Simple analytical expressions that describe the dispersion characteristics of the guided core mode and cladding modes are derived from a multilayer cylindrical waveguide. As the radial depth increases, we demonstrate that transition points exist for the resonances of lower cladding modes, i.e., LP₀₆ and LP₁₅ modes, by comparing the mode-coupling phase to the value π/2. In addition, we show that resonant wavelength shifts of all cladding modes follow the same trend. For the LP_νj (ν≠0) modes with two polarizations, the cross talk weakens the power exchanges between core mode LP₀₁ and LP_νj(ν≠0) modes. Moreover, the coupling mechanism relating to cladding index modulation is explained by the presence of the interaction between the evanescent field of the core mode and cladding modes. This work is promising in terms of providing sufficient guidelines to understand and explore design and application of LPFGs.}

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Zhihong Li, Tao Chen, Zhaogang Zhang, Yanming Zhou, Dan Li, and Zhong Xie "Spectral response of long-period fiber gratings to cladding refractive index perturbation," Optical Engineering 54(9), 096105 (11 September 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.9.096105

Published: 11 September 2015

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