Abstract:
An optical filter (20) composed of a concatenation of elementary filters (10) consisting of chirped slanted Bragg gratings written on a continuous portion of an optical waveguide, characterised in that the various gratings in the concatenation have the same angle, identical lengths and a linear chirp.
Abstract:
An optical filter includes a coupler having n output branches and an input branch receiving an input signal whose spectrum comprises a comb of wavelengths periodically spaced by a spacing eP. Each of the n output branches is coupled to a waveguide including two or more cascaded copropagated coupling components. Each of the n branches produces an output signal whose spectrum comprises a comb of wavelengths periodically spaced by a spacing equal to n times the spacing eP. Each of the n output signal spectra is complementary to the others.
Abstract:
An optical device (D) is dedicated to transforming the propagation mode of optical signals. The device comprises mode transformation means (3-5) associated with a multimode fiber (2) and comprising first and second mode converters (3and 5) coupled to each other by a multimode fiber portion (4) of selected length (L). The first converter (3) is fed with signals propagating in a first mode and it delivers the signals to the fiber portion (4) in part in the first mode and in part in a second mode of order higher than the first, and the second converter (5) is arranged to cause the signals in the first and second modes to interfere so that on outlet therefrom they present a selected spectral spacing.
Abstract:
A tuneable optical fibre comprising a long-period Bragg grating (5) written in a portion of an optical waveguide (10) comprising a core and an optical cladding (11), characterised in that the portion of the waveguide comprising the grating (5) is at least partially immersed in an external environment consisting of two distinct sections, a first section (1) whose refractive index is higher than that of the optical cladding (11) and a second section (2) whose refractive index is lower than that of the optical cladding (11), the long-period grating being at least partially immersed in one of the said sections so as to almost independently tune the wavelength and/or the contrast of the spectral response of the filter.