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Chun-Fan Chan, Chengkun Chen, Amir Jafari, Albane Laronche, Douglas J. Thomson,
and Jacques Albert
Short-period fiber Bragg gratings with weakly tilted grating planes generate multiple strong resonances
in transmission. Our experimental results show that the wavelength separation between selected reso-
nances allows the measurement of the refractive index of the medium surrounding the fiber for values
between 1.25 and 1.44 with an accuracy approaching 1 ⫻ 10⫺4. The sensor element is 10 mm long and
made from standard single-mode telecommunication grade optical fiber by ultraviolet light irradiation
through a phase mask. © 2007 Optical Society of America
OCIS codes: 060.2370, 120.5710, 230.1480.