Title :
High-performance 40 Gbit/s fibre Bragg grating tunable dispersion compensator fabricated using group delay ripple correction technique
Author :
Sumetsky, M. ; Litchinitser, N.M. ; Westbrook, P.S. ; Reyes, P.I. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Li, Y. ; Deshmukh, R. ; Soccolich, C. ; Rosca, F. ; Bennike, J. ; Liu, F. ; Dey, S.
Author_Institution :
OFS Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A recently proposed UV correction method is used to reduce group delay ripple in a chirped fibre grating tunable dispersion compensator. In 43 Gbit/s CSRZ system tests, the corrected grating had less than 0.5 dB OSNR penalty over the tunable dispersion range of 270 to 750 ps/nm.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; compensation; delays; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; 40 to 43 Gbit/s; CSRZ system; FBG tunable dispersion compensator; UV correction; chirped fibre Bragg gratings; fibre Bragg grating compensator; group delay ripple correction technique;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20030716
