Patent attributes
The present invention is an SSFBG with which there are few restrictions on the code that can be set and the overall length of which is short. This SSFBG has four unit FBGs the Bragg reflection wavelengths of which are λ1, λ2, λ3, and λ4 disposed with a part where the unit FBGs overlap one another in the waveguide direction of the optical fiber. The left end of the horizontal axis corresponds to the position of the I/O terminal of the SSFBG and the right end of the horizontal axis corresponds to the terminal on the opposite side from the I/O terminal of the SSFBG. The Bragg reflection wavelengths λ1, λ2, λ3, and λ4 of the four unit FBGs are λ1=1543.28 nm, λ2=1543.60 nm, λ3=1543.92 nm, and λ4=1544.24 nm respectively. Codes (λ1, λ2, λ3, and λ4) used in the time-spreading/wavelength hopping system are established for the SSFBG by disposing the four unit FBGs at equal intervals such that the interval therebetween is 12.8 mm.
