长周期光纤光栅傅里叶模式耦合理论

建立了长周期光纤光栅傅里叶模式耦合理论.在分析同向模式耦合时,发现了同向耦合模式的振幅系数间存在傅里叶变换关系.推导了长周期光纤光栅的同向耦合谱和透射谱的通用表达式.该理论是用傅里叶变换分析得出长周期光纤光栅折射率微扰的空域谱,再对该空域谱进行模式同向耦合分析,从而得到长周期光纤光栅光谱特性的通用表达式.根据该理论模拟分析了长周期光纤光栅在不同长度和微扰幅值时的光谱特性,与传统耦合模理论进行了对比分析.结果表明,该长周期光纤光栅傅里叶模式耦合理论具有简单、精确和高效的特点,与实际长周期光纤光栅的透射谱特性一致.应用该理论可分析无过耦合的任意轴向折射率微扰分布的长周期光纤光栅光谱特性.

Theory of Fourier mode coupling for long-period fiber gratings

A novel theory, namely, Fourier mode coupling (FMC) theory for fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is proposed in this paper. During analyzing coupled modes of FBGs, the Fourier transform relations among the amplitude coefficients of coupled modes are found for the first time. The general expressions of reflective and transmissive spectra of FBGs are deduced from the combination of Fourier transform with the well-known coupled-mode theory. In the proposed FMC theory, the spectral characteristics of the FBG are achieved by the calculation of coupled modes in the spatial domain spectrum, which is the Fourier transform result of refractive index perturbation in the FBG. The FBG spectrum based on the FMC theory is simulated here, and compared with those obtained from the coupled mode theory and pure Fourier transform. The comparison shows that the FMC theory for and the derived spactra of FBGs are in accordance with the coupled mode theory and the practical spectra of the FBG respectively. The FMC theory has many features, these being simple, clear, direct, accurate and fast, which could be used as a universal tool for fast spectrum analysis of any FBG with an arbitrary distribution of refractive index perturbation along the fiber axis.