Based on reconstruction-equivalent-chirp (REC) technique, a novel solution for fabricating low-cost long fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) with desired properties is proposed and initially studied. A proof-of-concept experiment is demonstrated with two conventional uniform phase masks and a submicron-precision translation stage, successfully. It is shown that the original phase shift (OPS) caused by phase mismatch of the two phase masks can be compensated by the equivalent phase shift (EPS) at the ±1^st channels of sampled FBGs, separately. Furthermore, as an example, a π phase-shifted FBG of about 90mm is fabricated by using these two 50mm-long uniform phase masks based on the presented method.

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Opt. Lett.

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