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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2000
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
There is provided an apparatus for fabricating an apodized fiber grating. In the apodized fiber grating fabricating apparatus, a UV (Ultraviolet) laser emits a UV laser beam, a beam splitter splits the UV laser beam emitted from the UV laser into two beams, a plurality of mirrors form light paths to concurrently project the split beams onto an optical fiber from two directions by reflecting the split beams, a phase mask passes the reflected beams therethrough in such a way to form gratings in the optical fiber in a predetermined period, a first blocking device is disposed between the phase mask and one of the mirrors, progressively blocks one of the two beams from being projected toward the optical fiber from one direction, and provides apodization to the formed gratings, and a second blocking device, which is mobile and opposite to the first blocking device with respect to the optical fiber, progressively blocks the other beam from being projected toward the optical fiber from another direction and provides apodization to the formed gratings, so that an average refractive index variation is constant across the whole gratings.