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In this article we show that the Bragg wavelength variation induced by a curvature in the grating is related to a competition between the variation of the effective index and the variation of the coupling coefficient of counter-propagating modes. The weighting coefficient between the two variables is the mean effective index of the grating
Fiber Bragg gratings, Bending
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