Efficient structure for optical interleavers using superimposed chirped fiber Bragg gratings

Author

Wang, Qijie J. ; Zhang, Ying ; Soh, Yeng Chai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

17

Issue

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

387

Lastpage

389

Abstract

This letter presents an all-fiber structure to implement optical interleaver by using superimposed chirped fiber Bragg gratings and a fiber coupler. With the proposed structure, a flat-top 25/50-GHz interleaver is experimentally fabricated and demonstrated with a 0.5-dB passband bandwidth of 17.1 GHz, a channel isolation of 20 dB, and group delay variations of 10 ps in the 0.5-dB passband.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 ps; 17.1 GHz; all-fiber structure; channel isolation; chirped fiber Bragg gratings; dense wavelength division multiplexing; fiber coupler; flat-top interleaver; group delay variations; optical fabrication; optical interleavers; superimposed gratings; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Chirp modulation; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber couplers; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical recording; Passband; Wavelength division multiplexing; 2; all-fiber; dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM); fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); optical interleaver;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.840272

Filename

1386324