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Low reflectivity fiber bragg grating with rectangular reflection function

US5668901A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 14, 1996
Grant dateSep 16, 1997
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Expiry dateFeb 14, 2016

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/02133
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Fiber Bragg gratings of low reflectivity are given a squared reflectivity function in the form of a tophat configuration having a flat top and lacking undesirable side lobes. Such a reflectivity function for a fiber Bragg grating is achieved by interfering a diffracted beam with a plane wavefront beam so as to impose a sinc function on the resulting interference pattern that imprints the grating on an optical fiber.

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