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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kevin Christopher Byron, Bishop's Stortford, GB;
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 37 ;
Abstract
Exposure to UV light of a photosensitive optical fiber through a uniform pitch phase grating is employed to write a chirped Bragg reflection grating in that fiber by imparting tensile strain to the fiber while sections of the Bragg reflection grating are sequentially written, and by altering the magnitude of that strain during the writing process.