Title :
Bragg grating gain flattening filters with small group delay ripples
Author :
Painchaud, Y. ; Mailloux, A. ; Morin, M. ; Trépanier, F. ; Guy, M. ; LaRochelle, S.
Author_Institution :
TeraXion, Sainte-Foy, Que., Canada
Abstract :
Group delay ripples less than 3 ps in amplitude were measured in chirped fiber Bragg gratings used as gain flattening filters. The delay ripples of cascaded filters increase as the square root of their number.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; delays; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; chirped fiber Bragg gratings; gain equalization; gain flattening filters; group delay ripple; optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; Bragg gratings; Delay; Fiber gratings; Frequency modulation; Optical amplifiers; Optical devices; Optical filters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989071
