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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2011
Michel J. F. Digonnet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shanhui Fan, Stanford, CA (US);
He Wen, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew Terrel, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michel J. F. Digonnet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shanhui Fan, Stanford, CA (US);
He Wen, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew Terrel, Los Altos, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In certain embodiments, an optical device and a method of use is provided. The optical device can include a fiber Bragg grating and a narrowband optical source. The narrowband optical source can be configured to generate light. A first portion of light can be transmitted along a first optical path extending along and through the length of the fiber Bragg grating at a group velocity. The light can have a wavelength at or in the vicinity of a wavelength at which one or more of the following quantities is at a maximum value: (a) the product of the group index spectrum and a square root of the power transmission spectrum, (b) the slope of a product of the group index spectrum and one minus the power transmission spectrum, and (c) the slope of a product of the group index spectrum and the power transmission spectrum.