Ultra-widely tunable long-period holey-fiber grating by the use of mechanical pressure.
We report an ultra-widely tunable long-period holey-fiber grating, which combines the wide-range single-mode behavior and transverse strain sensitivity of the holey fibers with the advantages of mechanically induced long-period fiber gratings. We obtain a versatile widely tunable long-period holey-fiber grating with attractive transmission spectral characteristics for optical communications, fiber-based amplifiers, and lasers. The mechanically induced long-period holey-fiber grating shows a continuous tuning range over 500 nm, more than 12 dB depth notches with less than 0.75 dB out-of-band losses, and bandwidth control from 10 to 40 nm.
Ceballos-Herrera
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Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Guanajuato, México.
Torres-Gómez
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Martínez-Ríos
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Anzueto-Sánchez
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Alvarez-Chávez
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Selvas-Aguilar
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Sánchez-Mondragón
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