1. Fiber Bragg Gratings Ashwin Reddy M arm34@drexel.edu

2. Contents Principle of Operation Fabrication Temperature dependence Athermalization or Packaging Applications

3. Principle of Operation

6. Fabrication Inferometric or Holographic technique Point by Point Technique Phase Mask Method

9. Temperature dependence of FBG

12. Athermalization

13. Applications Fiber Bragg Grating for Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer

15. Dispersion Compensation Solution: Recompress the optical pulses using a chirped grating

16. References Technical Papers: Fiber Bragg Grating for Telecommunications applications: Tuneable thermally stress enhanced OADM. Modeling and Analysis on the Thermal Tuning of Fiber Bragg Gratings for Optical Communication Applications Fiber / PLC Grating Devices for WDM Transmission Systems Fiber Bragg Gratings for high performance networks Fiber Bragg Gratings and Chromatic Dispersion Dispersion Compensation using Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings State-of-Art Manufacturing Techniques Push Fiber Bragg Gratings Components to New Levels of Performance Fiber Bragg Grating Filters for Optical Communications Ceramic Substrate with Negative Thermal Expansion for Athermalization of Fiber Bragg Gratings Development of Optical Fiber Gratings for WDM Systems