Fiber Bragg Gratings (Optis and Photonics Series) - Hardcover

Kashyap Professor, Raman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123725798 ISBN 13: 9780123725790

Publisher: Academic Press, 2009

Synopsis

• 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.

• 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

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Fully revised and updated, covering the substantial advances in FBGs since the pioneering first edition

Synopsis:

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are an efficient, cost-effective way to manipulate optical fibers; a process necessary to get the best output from these fibers. One example of this need is in optical networks. Data rates are always on the rise and with this greater speed comes a certain amount of dispersion. FBGs act as a dispersion controller, getting the data to its destination intact. The first edition of "Fiber Bragg Gratings" was the first ever book on the subject. It has become the reference in the field.The information provided in this book is essential to researchers, industry manufacturers, and students as the need for FBGs continues with applications in communications and optical sensors. Dr. Kashyap will update all chapters currently in the volume and add approximately 120 pages of new material in two new chapters: Fiber Bragg Gratings Sensors; Glass Poling and Nonlinear Optical Effects in FBGs. This book explains this vital technology from fundamentals to functions. It evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of particular applications, methods and techniques.

It contains thoroughly updated material from the first edition plus new chapters on FBG sensors, glass poling and nonlinear optical effects in FBGs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0123725798
• ISBN 13: 9780123725790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 632