Abstract
The design of a tunable metal-coated long-period fiber grating (LPFG) filter
based on the material dispersion consideration is presented. The tuning of the
resonant wavelength can be achieved by heating the metal layer. Based on the coupled
mode theory, the influences of the material dispersion on the transmission spectrum
of the metal-coated LPFG are studied. There is a special grating period for a
specific cladding mode; when the grating period is less than or equal to the special
grating period, the material dispersion has weak influence on the resonant
wavelength. Under such condition, the attenuation band depth corresponding to the
specific cladding mode has excellent stability while the temperature changes, thus
improving the filtering performances of the tunable loss filter. Further,
experimental results demonstrate the validity and feasibility of the proposed
tunable filter.
© 2012 Chinese Optics Letters
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