Analysis of fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in reflective and transmissive geometries

Author

Litchinitser, Natalia M. ; Patterson, David B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

Volume

15

Issue

8

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1323

Lastpage

1328

Abstract

Numerical analysis of the dispersion-compensating properties of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in both reflective and transmissive modes is presented. First, the sensitivity of chirped, reflective gratings to the grating chirp parameter, index modulation, and grating length is examined, showing that apodization provides lower sensitivity to variations in these parameters. Second, we introduce a new transmissive geometry for grating-based dispersion compensation that utilizes the dispersive properties of a uniform Bragg grating in transmission

Keywords

compensation; diffraction gratings; geometry; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical fibres; optical images; reflectivity; refractive index; sensitivity; apodization; dispersion compensation; dispersion-compensating properties; fiber Bragg gratings; grating chirp parameter; grating length; index modulation; lower sensitivity; numerical analysis; reflective geometries; transmissive geometries; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Geometrical optics; Geometry; Insertion loss; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.618332

Filename

618332