级联型长周期光纤光栅传输谱的研究

Study on Transmission Spectrum of Cascaded Long-period Fiber Gratings

采用级联多个长周期光纤光栅的方法有效拓宽了长周期光纤光栅反射谱带宽。分析了LPFG透射谱的谐振峰的定位问题,并通过级联多段周期相同但长度和微扰不同的LPFG来形成一个级联型的长周期光纤光栅,然后通过使用传输矩阵的方法,对级联光栅的传输谱进行了数值分析。经过分析发现,如果适当地调整级联型长周期光纤光栅的各个参数如级联的段数以及各段的长度和微扰等值,则所得到的这个级联型长周期光栅的透射谱的有效带宽将显著地增大,其透射谱的形状也会发生显著改变。

An improved method of cascaded long-period fiber gratings （LPFGs） is proposed, which can effectively broaden the resonant spectrum bandwidth of LPFGs. The positioning of the resonance peak of transmission spectra in LPFGs was analyzed. A cascaded LPFG was obtained by cascading various LPFGs with the same period but different length and index perturbation. Transfer matrix method was used to numerically calculate its transmission spectrum, and it is found that the effective bandwidth will become wider and the shapes will correspondingly change if the related parameters in cascaded LPFG, such as the number of segments and length and index perturbations of each segment, are adjusted correctly.