Title :
Dynamic Brillouin gratings: A new tool in fibers for all-optical signal processing
Author :
Thévenaz, Luc ; Primerov, Nikolay ; Chin, Sanghoon ; Santagiustina, Marco
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electr. Eng., EPFL Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
The recent possibility to generate dynamic Bragg gratings by the interaction of 2 optical waves through stimulated Brillouin scattering in highly birefringent fibers has opened a new field to realize all-optical fiber-based functions.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; birefringence; optical fibre polarisation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; all-optical signal processing; birefringent fibers; dynamic Brillouin gratings; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical pulses; Optical reflection; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110426
