By
Raman Kashyap, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Description
- 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 live simulations of many of the example devices presented in the book.
This fully revised, updated and expanded
second edition covers the substantial advances in the manufacture and use of FBGs in the years since the publication of the pioneering
first edition. It presents a comprehensive treatise on FBGs and addresses issues such as the merits of one solution over another; why
particular 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 grating fabrication 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 usage of FBGs, application areas such as fiber lasers and
sensors are addressed in greater detail.
This special version of Picwave is limited to modelling only the passive fibre devices
covered in this book. However the full PicWave package is capable of modelling other non-linear and active devices such as laser diodes
and SOAs as discussed in Chapter 8. More information about PicWave can be found at www.photond.com/products/picwave.htm.
In addition
to researchers, scientists, and graduate students, this book will be of interest to industrial practitioners in the field of fabrication
of fiber optic materials and devices.
Raman Kashyap, Canada Research Chair holder 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.
Included in series
Optics and Photonics
Audience:
Photonics engineers, optical fiber designers, sensor industry manufacturers, engineers developing optical sensors, communications engineers, students, researchers, professors
