Title :
Dispersion compensation of 16 ps pulses over 100 km of step-index fibre using cascaded chirped fibre gratings
Author :
Taverner, D. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Barcelos, S. ; Zervas, M.N. ; Reekie, L. ; Laming, R.I.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
fDate :
6/8/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The propagation of 16 ps data pulses over 100 km of step-index fibre using two cascaded chirped fibre gratings to achieve dispersion compensation is presented. At the output, the pulses are broadened slightly to 20 ps, indicating the potential for 50 Gbit/s operation
Keywords :
compensation; diffraction gratings; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; refractive index; 100 km; 16 ps; 50 Gbit/s; 50 Gbit/s operation; cascaded chirped fibre gratings; data pulses; dispersion compensation; optical fibre networks; optical pulse broadening; step-index fibre;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19950673
