Experimental investigation of link between growth and decay of fiber Bragg gratings

Srinivasan, Balaji and Prasad, Vishnu VJ and Joseph, Rajesh and Asokan, S and Viswanathan, Nirmal K (2011) Experimental investigation of link between growth and decay of fiber Bragg gratings. In: Applied Optics, 50 (21). pp. 4042-4047.

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Abstract

We report here an experimental investigation for establishing and quantifying a link between the growth and decay characteristics of fiber Bragg gratings. One of the key aspects of our work is the determination of the defect energy distribution from the grating characteristics measured during their fabrication. We observe a strong correlation between the growth-based defect energy distribution and that obtained through accelerated aging experiments, paving the way for predicting the decay characteristics of fiber Bragg gratings from their growth data. Such a prediction is significant in simplifying the postfabrication steps required to enhance the thermal stability of fiber Bragg gratings. (c) 2011 Optical Society of America

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Applied Optics
Publisher:	Optical Soc Amer
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Optical Soc Amer.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2011 10:52
Last Modified:	04 Aug 2011 10:52
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/39734

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