Fiber Bragg Gratings

Zusammenfassung Presents an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs)! from fundamentals to applications. This book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications! methods and techniques. It contains chapters on sensing! femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibers.

Klappentext

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are an efficient, cost-effective way to manipulate optical fibers; a process necessary to get the best output from these fibers. They act as a dispersion controller, getting the data to its destination intact. This book explains this vital technology from fundamentals to functions.

Zusammenfassung
Presents an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), from fundamentals to applications. This book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniques. It contains chapters on sensing, femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibers.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
2. Photosensitivity and Photosensitization of Optical Fibers
3. Fabrication of Bragg Gratings
4. Theory of Fiber Bragg Gratings
5. Apodization of Fiber Gratings 189
6. Fiber Grating Band-Pass Filters
7. Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings
8. Fiber Grating Lasers and Amplifiers
9. Measurement and Characterization of Gratings
10. Principles of Optical Fiber Grating Sensors
11. Femtosecond-Induced Refractive Index Changes in Glass
12. Poling of Glasses and Optical Fibers