Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 39, Issue 2, 238(2010)
Hybrid Fiber Grating-based Optical Comb Filters with Changeable Channel Numbers
An in-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer filter based on a pair of long-period fiber gratings (LPGs) had been operated in the reflection mode by incorporating a broadband chirped-fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) or an optical fiber mirror reflector.As a result,the extinction ratio has been nearly doubled and,by tuning chirp rate,i.e.reflection bandwidth of the CFBG using a beam-bending method,channel number of the formed optical comb filter can be easily changed.In our experiment,two comb filters with channel numbers being changed among odd ones from 1 to 5 and 3 to 9 have been achieved,respectively.Even channel filtering can also be achieved if the center wavelength of the chirped fiber grating is changable.
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DONG Xin-yong, LI Lan, SHUM Ping, CHAN Chi-chiu. Hybrid Fiber Grating-based Optical Comb Filters with Changeable Channel Numbers[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2010, 39(2): 238
Received: Apr. 9, 2009
Accepted: --
Published Online: May. 24, 2010
The Author Email: Xin-yong DONG (xydong@cjlu.cn)
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