Title :
Monte-Carlo-based method for group delay ripple reduction in cascaded dispersion compensation FBGs
Author :
Aldaya, Ivan ; Giacoumidis, E. ; Tsyier, Sergei ; Tsokanos, Athanasios ; Ghassemlooy, Zabih ; Martins, Indayara B. ; Perez-Sanchez, Grethell ; Tomkos, Ioannis
Author_Institution :
InstitutoTecnologico y de EstudiosSuperiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Abstract :
Monte-Carlo (MC)-based optimization is applied to minimize the group delay ripple (GDR) of cascaded chromatic dispersion compensation fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). Optimal selection of FBGs using MC shows an improvement of up to ~40% with respect to the average value of 10 cascaded FBGs.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Monte Carlo methods; optical dispersion; optical fibres; FBG; Monte-Carlo-based method; Monte-Carlo-based optimization; cascaded chromatic dispersion compensation; group delay ripple reduction; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical reflection; Bragg reflectors; Diffraction and gratings; Monte Carlo optimization;
Conference_Titel :
Network and Optical Communications (NOC), 2013 18th European Conference on and Optical Cabling and Infrastructure (OC&i), 2013 8th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Graz
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5821-7
DOI :
10.1109/NOC-OCI.2013.6582885
