High diffraction of green light is observed in the first order (Figure 6c) for 400 nm grating, whereas red light is highly diffracted by the 500 nm grating (Figure 6d). The diffraction spots were visualized in the range of −90° to +90° with blue diffracted at lower angles compared to red. No mth‐ordermodes Grating period must be shorter than what causes m) = 90° Ensure mth‐order modes Grating period must be larger than what causes m) = 90° Three Modes of Operation for 1D Gratings Slide 28 Bragg Grating Couples energy between counter‐propagating waves. Diffraction Grating.
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An optical Bragg grating is a transparent device with a periodic variation of the refractive index, so that a large reflectance (reflectivity) may be reached in some wavelength range (bandwidth) around a certain wavelength which fulfills the Bragg condition
where λ is the vacuum wavelength of light, n the average refractive index of the medium, θ the propagation angle in the medium relative to the direction normal to the grating, and Λ the grating period.If this condition is met, the wavenumber of the grating matches the difference of the wavenumbers of the incident and reflected waves.
Other wavelengths are only weakly affected by the Bragg grating, except for some side lobes in the reflection spectrum.Similarly, the reflection can nearly totally disappear when the angle of incidence is modified (see Figure 1).
Around the Bragg wavelength, even a weak index modulation can be sufficient for achieving nearly total reflection, if the grating is sufficiently long.Due to the wavelength dependence of reflection and transmission, a Bragg grating can serve as an optical filter.
Examples of Optical Bragg Gratings
- Bragg gratings made in a bulk piece (e.g. of some glass or polymer), usually by irradiation of a photosensitive glass with coherentultraviolet light which is spatially modulated using an interference pattern, are called volume Bragg gratings (Figure 1).Their reflection bandwidth is much smaller than that of dielectric thin-film mirrors, since they have a low refractive index contrast, which is compensated with a correspondingly longer interaction length.(Peak reflectivities of 99.9% are possible.)Volume Bragg gratings can be used e.g. as output couplers for laser diodes; the small reflection bandwidth (e.g. below 0.1 nm) can then lead to a narrow emission bandwidth (linewidth) and a low temperature dependence of the emission wavelength, which can facilitate the pumping of solid-state lasers.One can also insert a volume Bragg grating into the laser resonator of a solid-state laser in order to stabilize or tune its emission wavelength.For high intracavity powers (e.g. tens of watts), however, detrimental thermal effects can occur, such as a shift of the reflection band and a decrease of reflectance.For not too high power levels, volume Bragg gratings can also be used in spectral beam combining.
- There are fiber Bragg gratings, made in optical fibers.These can reflect light in fibers, or lead to various kinds of mode coupling in multimode fibers.Fiber Bragg gratings are used e.g. for fixing the wavelengths of fiber lasers, for filtering out certain wavelength components, for gain flattening of fiber amplifiers, and in fiber-optic sensors.
- There are also laser diodes with built-in Bragg gratings (based on semiconductor technology) for narrowing and stabilization of the emission wavelength (→ distributed Bragg reflector lasers, distributed feedback lasers).
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The Raman Scattering Suppressor (RSS) is a fiber Bragg grating-based bandpass filter. It tackles Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) at its source.
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In order for two waves to simultaneously strenghen each other (that is, constructively interfere), they must be in phase. After reflection from a thin crystal grating with spacing (d), two waves are in the same phase only if the additional distance $l$ that one reflected wave must travel is an integer multiple of the wavelength (lambda) longer than the distance that a second reflected wave must travel.
The wavelength difference (l) between the two waves depends on the incoming wave's angle of incidence (theta) and the spacing (d) of the grating planes.
Geometrical considerations give the result$$l=2cdot dcdot sin(theta)$$ where the factor of 2 arises because the overall additional path includes the distance traveled by both the incoming and outgoing waves.
The so called Bragg's-Lawtion for constructive interference is given by $$bbox[8px,border:2px solid red]{text ncdot lambda=2cdot dcdot sin(theta)}$$where n ∈ N0 is the order of the interference maximum.
Note: In the graphic, the wave picture for (n=2) is depicted. The travelling distance difference of the waves is two wavelengths to create the second order interference maximum.
