Asymmetrically apodised linearly-chirped fibre Bragg gratings with improved dispersion characteristics

Author

Zervas, M.N. ; Taverner, D.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

417

Abstract

Asymmetrically apodised linearly-chirped fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) are shown to have highly linearised time-delay response. In simulations of a five-stage, 5-cm grating-based dispersion compensation system, asymmetrically apodised FBGs are shown to give over 60% reduction in the energy scattered from the main pulse body, for 16 ps to 60 ps pulses propagated over 800 km, as compared to a symmetrically apodised grating

Keywords

Bragg gratings; compensation; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical images; symmetry; 16 to 60 ps; 5 cm; 800 km; asymmetrically apodised FBGs; asymmetrically apodised linearly-chirped fibre Bragg gratings; dispersion compensation system; energy scattering; grating-based dispersion compensation system; highly linearised time-delay response; improved dispersion characteristics; ps pulse propagation; pulse body; symmetrically apodised grating; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Delay effects; Dispersion; Fiber gratings; Linearity; Reflection; Reflectivity; Scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732628

Filename

732628