All-fiber Michelson-Gires-Toumois interferometer as multi-passband filter

Author

Shu, Xuewen ; Sugden, Kate ; Bennion, Ian

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2004

fDate

19-20 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

147

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel flattop multi-passband filter based on all-fiber Michelson-Gires-Tournois interferometer (MGTI). With introducing a distributed Gires-Tournoise etalon to a Michelson interferometer, we realize, for the first time to our knowledge, an all-fiber MGTI structure. Compared with the bulk-optic MGTI, the proposed all-fiber device has some additional advantages such as fully compatible with fiber system, low insertion loss and low cost. Such filters are potentially very attractive for DWDM application in optical fiber communication systems.

Keywords

Michelson interferometers; band-pass filters; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; optical fibre losses; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM application; Michelson interferometer; Michelson-Gires-Toumois interferometer; all-fiber device; all-fiber interferometer; distributed Gires-Tournoise etalon; flattop filter; insertion loss; multipass-band filter; optical fiber communication systems; Arm; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Insertion loss; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber filters; Optical interferometry; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lightwave Technologies in Instrumentation and Measurement Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8722-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LTIMC.2004.1371012

Filename

1371012