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Photosensitive fibres

Growing gratings

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The photosensitive optical fibre — a work-horse of the telecommunications industry for many years — is now seeing rapid uptake in the sensor and laser industries.

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Figure 1: The wavelength of light reflected by an FBG is determined by the frequency of the refractive index perturbations in the fibre core.
Figure 2: The core of a single-mode optical fibre, showing the periodic structure of the induced refractive index perturbation.
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  1. Andy Gillooly is a senior sales engineer at Fibercore, University Parkway, Southampton Science Park, Chilworth, Southampton SO16 7QQ, UK,

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Gillooly, A. Growing gratings. Nature Photon 5, 468–469 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.160

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