Title :
Cladding mode suppression in fibre Bragg gratings using fibres with a depressed cladding
Author :
Dong, L. ; Reekie, L. ; Cruz, J.L. ; Caplen, J.E. ; Payne, D.N.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
We have demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally strong suppression of coupling of the guided fundamental mode into cladding modes in a Bragg grating by introducing a depressed cladding around the core region. We have also studied the effect for different depression depths.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre theory; optical fibres; cladding mode suppression; core region; depressed cladding; depression depths; fibre Bragg gratings; guided fundamental mode; guided fundamental mode coupling suppression; optical fibre cladding;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
