Abstract

The in-fiber Bragg grating is one of the most important developments in fiber telecommunications in this decade. Fiber Bragg gratings have been demonstrated that have reflectivity ranging from zero to almost one. Simple gratings have been demonstrated that have bandwidths ranging from a few GHz to many nanometers. Fiber gratings have found application in continuous wave and mode locked lasers, fiber dispersion compensation, pulse compression, fixed and tunable optical filters, add-drop filters and as demultiplexing elements. This paper will review telecommunication devices that have been realized with this key technology.

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