Title :
Design and application of long, continuously chirped fibre gratings
Author :
Cole, M.J. ; Aina, Segun ; Durkin, M. ; Ibsen, M. ; Vaninetti, F. ; Arcangeli, L. ; Gusmeroli, V. ; Laming, R.I.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
Long (40→100 cm) continuously chirped broadband fibre gratings are demonstrated and tested in a 10 Gbit/s NRZ standard fibre transmission system. Dispersion compensation for standard fibre lengths upto 125 km and over a 4 nm bandwidth is confirmed
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; 10 Gbit/s; 125 km; 40 to 100 cm; BER; Bragg gratings; NRZ standard fibre transmission system; apodisation; broadband fibre gratings; cascaded gratings; dispersion compensation; equaliser; fabrication; fibre gratings design; long continuously chirped fibre gratings; optical fibre networks; reflectivity; time delay;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Gratings (Digest No. 1997/037), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19970250
