Title :
Waveguide grating routers for dispersionless filtering in WDM system at channel rate of 10 Gbit/s
Author :
Lenz, G. ; Nykolak, G. ; Eggleton, B.J.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
fDate :
8/20/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Waveguide grating routers (WGRs) are shown to be dispersionless optical filters. A system experiment at a data rate of 10 Gbit/s confirms that the dispersive penalty due to such a filter is negligible. Furthermore, since WGRs are inherently linear phase filters, in principle, arbitrarily square and dispersionless filters may be designed
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical fibre communication; optical waveguide filters; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; WDM system; channel rate; dispersionless optical filter; linear phase filter; square filter; waveguide grating router;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19981194
