title: Design of an ultrafast all-optical differentiator based on a fiber Bragg grating in transmission.
abstract: We propose and analyze a first-order optical differentiator based on a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) in transmission. It is shown in the examples that a simple uniform-period FBG in a very strong coupling regime (maximum reflectivity very close to 100%) can perform close to ideal temporal differentiation of the complex envelope of an arbitrary-input optical signal.
authors.affiliation: ETSI Telecommunicacion, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain. ma.preciado@upm.es
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Preciado
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Muriel