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Fundamental properties of Bragg gratings and their application to the design of advanced structures

Fundamental properties of Bragg gratings and their application to the design of advanced structures
Fundamental properties of Bragg gratings and their application to the design of advanced structures
This thesis presents the analysis of the local properties of Bragg gratings and their application to the improvement of standard designs and advanced structures. The time spent by light inside each grating section is derived in terms of complex-valued quantities, and clear meaning is given to both the real and imaginary parts. Improved physical understanding of propagation and energy distributions inside periodic structures is obtained. Local properties also explain in a more intuitive way well understood features of different gratings, which improves intuition of new complex designs. The analysis of the effect of perturbations is immediate using this approach and has important practical applications. Independent confirmation of the theory is obtained, and experimental measurement of the imaginary part of the local time delay is given. Phase errors affect the grating writing techniques, and the related sensitivity is analysed in detail. The robustness of different designs is discussed with respect to such manufacturing errors. Fine tuning of standard or advanced grating designs by means of suitable error distributions is also proposed, and optimised characteristics either in the reflectivity or in the dispersive response are obtained. This method is integrated with inverse scattering designs to further boost their performances. Improved complex designs are also proposed in case losses affect propagation in the grating. Cladding mode losses are compensated using an iterative layer-peeling algorithm. The design of the first wide-band dispersion-compensating grating realised with a standard single mode fibre is shown. Background losses and UV-induced losses in gratings are also compensated using a modified layer-peeling method. The physical limitations related to grating design in lossy media are explained using the derived understanding of local properties. New advanced designs are also considered that fully exploit the theoretical potentialities and manufacturing capabilities of Bragg gratings. The performance of code-division multiple access systems based on superstructured gratings is improved by combining encoding, bandwidth filtering, and dispersion compensation in the same high reflectivity grating.
Ghiringhelli, F.
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Ghiringhelli, F.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Ghiringhelli, F. (2003) Fundamental properties of Bragg gratings and their application to the design of advanced structures. University of Southampton, Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Doctoral Thesis, 258pp.

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This thesis presents the analysis of the local properties of Bragg gratings and their application to the improvement of standard designs and advanced structures. The time spent by light inside each grating section is derived in terms of complex-valued quantities, and clear meaning is given to both the real and imaginary parts. Improved physical understanding of propagation and energy distributions inside periodic structures is obtained. Local properties also explain in a more intuitive way well understood features of different gratings, which improves intuition of new complex designs. The analysis of the effect of perturbations is immediate using this approach and has important practical applications. Independent confirmation of the theory is obtained, and experimental measurement of the imaginary part of the local time delay is given. Phase errors affect the grating writing techniques, and the related sensitivity is analysed in detail. The robustness of different designs is discussed with respect to such manufacturing errors. Fine tuning of standard or advanced grating designs by means of suitable error distributions is also proposed, and optimised characteristics either in the reflectivity or in the dispersive response are obtained. This method is integrated with inverse scattering designs to further boost their performances. Improved complex designs are also proposed in case losses affect propagation in the grating. Cladding mode losses are compensated using an iterative layer-peeling algorithm. The design of the first wide-band dispersion-compensating grating realised with a standard single mode fibre is shown. Background losses and UV-induced losses in gratings are also compensated using a modified layer-peeling method. The physical limitations related to grating design in lossy media are explained using the derived understanding of local properties. New advanced designs are also considered that fully exploit the theoretical potentialities and manufacturing capabilities of Bragg gratings. The performance of code-division multiple access systems based on superstructured gratings is improved by combining encoding, bandwidth filtering, and dispersion compensation in the same high reflectivity grating.

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Published date: 2003
Organisations: University of Southampton, Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Date deposited: 20 Apr 2005
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Author: F. Ghiringhelli
Thesis advisor: W.A. Clarkson

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