Experimental reconstruction of a long-period grating from its core-to-core transmission spectrum

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We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, reconstruction of the structure of a long-period grating from its measured core-to-core transmission spectrum intensity. The reconstruction is obtained by writing an auxiliary grating in cascade to the interrogated grating. Our reconstruction technique is based on using the Hilbert transform and a phase-retrieval algorithm. Using our method, we have reconstructed the structure of a uniform long-period grating with a 47% coupling efficiency. [Read more…]

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Fig. 1 Experimental system used to reconstruct the interrogated grating structure. An auxiliary grating is written to obtain a unique reconstruction.

Amir Rosenthal, Stephan Lange, Christian Shäffer, and Moshe Horowitz, “Experimental reconstruction of a long-period grating from its core-to-core transmission spectrum,” Opt. Lett. 30, 3272-3274 (2005)