Abstract

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) usually can be seen as a stack of Fabry–Perot (FP) cavities, which result in strong Bragg resonance through multi-cavity FP interference. In this Letter, we report surprising and interesting dual interference effects in a line-by-line (LBL) inscribed FBG with a femtosecond laser. Besides the well-known FP effect, the equivalent Mach–Zehnder interference (MZI) effect caused by mode interference can also be observed in the LBL FBG simultaneously. The experimental results of the comparison between the LBL FBGs and the point-by-point inscribed FBGs show that the dual interference effects are merely observed in the LBL FBGs. Meanwhile, the achieved MZI exhibits a strong polarization dependence. Sharing the merits of the FBG and MZI simultaneously, the achieved optical fiber device may find potential applications in optical fiber communication, fiber lasers, and multi-parameter sensor systems.

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