Spectral properties of a variable period Bragg grating including a segment isolated of external deformations

RICARDO DUCHOWICZ; JOSÉ L. CRUZ; ANGÉLICA MESA YANDY; MIGUEL V. ANDRÉS; NELIDA ARACELI RUSSO

Mar del Plata, Argentina

Workshop; XVII Workshop on Information Processing and Control (RPIC 2017); 2017

In this work the behavior of a Bragg grating of variable period (usually called a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating - CFBG) is analyzed when a small portion of it is fixed so that its properties remain unchanged, while the rest of the grating is affected by a longitudinal deformation. The system was simulated using the Transfer Matrix Method to obtain its behavior under different levels of deformation and it was observed the appearance of negative peaks in the spectral response (transmission peaks). The analysis allowed characterizing the system with different sizes of the fixed portion (defects) (0.5 to 6 mm), for a grating with 10 cm long and 3 nm spectral width.