Tunable add/drop filter for CWDM system using cladding mode coupling assisted by long-period fiber gratings

Author

Kim, Myoung Jin ; Chan, Florence Y M ; Paek, Un-Chul ; Lee, Byeong Ha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea

fYear

2006

fDate

5-10 March 2006

Abstract

We propose a tunable fiber add/drop filter suitable for coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) systems. The light coupling between two fibers was performed through the cladding modes assisted by two identical long-period fiber gratings (LPGs). Experimentally, 75% net coupling efficiency was achieved and the side lobes were suppressed by -24 dB.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; optical communication equipment; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre filters; optical tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; 75 percent; CWDM; LPG; add/drop filter; cladding mode coupling; coarse wavelength division multiplexing; long-period fiber gratings; net coupling efficiency; optical tuning; Fiber gratings; High speed optical techniques; Optical coupling; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber filters; Resonance; Temperature sensors; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006

Print_ISBN

1-55752-803-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2006.215424

Filename

1636455