A mounting platform provides support and packaging for one or more fiber
Bragg gratings and electronic circuitry (e.g., heaters, coolers,
piezoelectric strain providers, temperature and strain sensors, feedback
circuitry, control loops), which may be printed on or on the mounting
platform, embedded in the mounting platform, or may be an "off-board"
chip solution (e.g., the electronic circuitry may be attached to the
mounting platform, but not formed on or defined on the mounting
platform). The fiber Bragg gratings are held in close proximity to the
electronic circuitry, which applies local and global temperature and/or
strain variations to the fiber Bragg gratings to, for example, stabilize
and/or tune spectral properties of the fiber Bragg gratings so that
spatial variations in the fiber Bragg gratings that result from
processing and manufacturing fluctuations and tolerances can be
compensated for.