Title :
Dispersion penalty measurements of narrow fiber Bragg gratings at 10 Gb/s
Author :
Nykolak, G. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Lenz, G. ; Strasser, T.A.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol., Bell Labs. Innovations, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We measure the dispersion penalty of a narrow fiber Bragg grating (0.25 nm) at 10 Gb/s, in both transmission (pass through channel) and reflection (drop channel). We investigate the effects of transmitter chirp conditions on the dispersion penalty performance.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; WDM systems; dispersion penalty measurements; dispersion penalty performance; narrow fiber Bragg gratings; transmitter chirp conditions; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Dispersion; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical reflection; Optical transmitters; Repeaters; Wavelength measurement;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
