Dispersion of optical fibers with far off-resonance gratings

Author

Sipe, J.E. ; De Sterke, C. Martijn

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

19

Issue

12

fYear

2001

fDate

12/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1892

Lastpage

1897

Abstract

We derive analytic expressions for the quadratic and cubic dispersion of optical fiber Bragg gratings, at frequencies far from the Bragg condition, where the usual coupled-mode theory (CMT) fails. We use these to design fibers that have no quadratic dispersion at a particular wavelength, but find that the cubic dispersion then increases. We also show that it is possible to design a fiber link with vanishing average quadratic and cubic dispersion by combining a length of standard fiber and a length of dispersion compensating fiber with an off-resonance grating

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre theory; optical links; Bragg condition; coupled-mode theory; cubic dispersion; dispersion; dispersion compensating fiber; far off-resonance gratings; fiber link design; off-resonance grating; optical fiber Bragg gratings; optical fiber design; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber theory; optical fibers; quadratic dispersion; standard fiber; Bragg gratings; Failure analysis; Fiber gratings; Frequency; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical reflection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.971682

Filename

971682