Institution: | aPhotonic Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 University Street, Montreal, Que., Canada H3A 2A7 bInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) – Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, 800 de la Gauchetiére Ouest, suite 6900, Montréal, Qué., Canada H5A 1K6 |
Abstract: | We derive the general conditions for which spectral Talbot phenomena, both integer and fractional self-imaging, can be observed in sampled arbitrarily chirped fiber Bragg gratings. These results are a generalization of those previously reported in C. Wang, J. Azaña, L.R. Chen, Opt. Lett. 29(14) (2004) 1590] in which spectral Talbot phenomena were observed in sampled linearly chirped fiber Bragg gratings. We confirm our theoretical derivations with numerical simulations. |