The authors report the realisation of a new type of long-period fibre grating with an enhanced temperature sensitivity of 80 nm/100°C by the use of specially-designed fibre structures incorporating polymers. These new gratings should enable broadly tunable filters for communications systems.
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A.M. Vengsarkar ,
P.J. Lemaire ,
J.B. Judkins ,
V. Bathia ,
T. Erdogan ,
J.E. Sipe
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Long-period fiber gratings as band-rejection filters.
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