Title :
Implications of phase ripple in a dispersion compensating grating for chirped signals
Author :
Cheng, N. ; Cartledge, J.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
An approximation for the power penalty due to the combined implications of modulator chirp and phase ripple of a dispersion compensating fiber Bragg grating is presented. Calculated and measured results are compared for 10 Gb/s RZ signals with distinct chirp properties.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; 10 Gbit/s; RZ signals; dispersion compensating fiber Bragg grating; modulator chirp; phase ripple; power penalty; Chirp modulation; Delay; Gratings; Insertion loss; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical losses; Optical reflection; Phase modulation; System performance;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363239
