Fiber Bragg Gratings

• Provides an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), from fundamentals to applications


• Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniques


• Contains new chapters on sensing, femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibers


• Includes a special version of the photonic simulator PicWave (tm), allowing the reader to make a live simulation of the book.

This fully revised, updated and expanded edition of the pioneering first edition. It presents a comprehensive treatise on FBGs and addresses issues; why else fabrication methods are preferred; and what advantages a user may gain from certain techniques.

Beginning with the principles of FBGs, the book progresses to discuss photosensitization of optical fibers, Bragg gratings and theory, properties of gratings, specific applications, sensing technology, glass poling, advances in femtosecond laser writing of Bragg gratings and FBG measurement techniques. In addition to material on telecommunications, FBGs, application areas.

This special version of Picwave is limited to this book. However, the full PicWave package is also available as SOAs and can be found at www.photond.com/products/picwave.htm.

In addition to researchers, scientists, graduates, opticians and opticians in the field of optic materials and devices.

Raman Kashyap , Canada Research Chair on Future Photonics Systems, and Professor at École Polytechnique, University of Montréal since 2003, has researched optical fibers and devices for over 30 years. He pioneered the fabrication of FBGs and applications in telecommunications and photonics.

• Provides an overview of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs), from fundamentals to applications


• Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniques


• Contains new chapters on sensing, femtosecond laser writing of FBGs and poling of glass and optical fibers


• Includes a special version of the photonic simulator PicWave (tm), allowing the reader to make a live simulation of the book.

Introduction; Photosensitivity and Photosensitization of Optical Fibers; Fabrication of Bragg Gratings; Theory of Fiber Bragg Gratings; Apodization of Fiber Gratings; Fiber Grating Band-Pass Filters; Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings; Fiber Grating Lasers and Amplifiers; Measurement and Characterization of Gratings; Principles of Optical Fiber Grating Sensors; Femtosecond-Induced Refractive Index Changes in Glass; Poling of Glasses and Optical Fibers