Wavelength control with grating imprinted fiber Sagnac loop mirror by polarization and strain tuning

作者：Lu Ping; Men Liqiu; Chen Qiying^*

来源：Journal of Applied Physics, 2009, 106(1): 013111.

DOI：10.1063/1.3168435

• Bragg gratings
• mirrors
• optical fibre polarisation
• optical tuning
• optical variables control
• red shift
• Sagnac interferometers

Wavelength control by the use of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) imprinted polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) Sagnac loop mirror (SLM) is proposed and demonstrated through polarization and strain tuning. The Bragg wavelengths of the FBG in the PMF along slow or fast axis show redshifts with the increase in strain with sensitivities of 8.77x10(-4) and 9.11x10(-4) nm/mu epsilon, respectively, whereas the interferometric peak wavelength of the SLM exhibits a blueshift with a sensitivity of 1.9437x10(-2) nm/mu epsilon for the peak with an order number of 420. The opposite strain sensitivities and the pronounced difference in the bandwidth of the FBG resonance peak and that of the SLM, together with the controllability on the wavelength spacing of the SLM neighboring transmission maxima, provide a variety of alternatives to realize wavelength tuning for many practical applications.

• 出版日期2009-7-1