title: Impact of fiber design on polarization dependence in microbend gratings.
abstract: Polarization dependence in microbend gratings is an inherent problem. We formulate simple analytical expressions to describe it, and demonstrate their effectiveness via a comparison with experimental results on a standard transmission fiber. The ability to control polarization dependence with fiber design potentially enables replacing UV-LPGs within low-cost, tunable microbend gratings.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Golowich
authors.forename: Siddharth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramachandran