Fabrication and performance of packaged fibre gratings for telecommunications

Author

Farries, M.C. ; Reid, D.C.J. ; Goodwin, M. ; Sugden, K. ; Bennion, I.

Author_Institution

GEC Marconi Mater. Technol., Towcester, UK

fYear

1995

fDate

34729

Firstpage

42461

Lastpage

42465

Abstract

Fibre gratings provide a reliable filter for telecommunications at a cost which is lower than any competing technologies. We are now able to produce fibre gratings with very high technical specifications in terms of wavelength characteristics and transmission loss. This paper discusses the performance that may be achieved from fibre gratings and the fabrication routes that are used to achieve components for use in the telecoms industry. Potential applications for fibre gratings are for channel selection in WDM systems, amplifier noise reduction, frequency stabilisation of transmitters, dispersion compensation and link supervision

Keywords

diffraction gratings; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre testing; WDM systems; amplifier noise reduction; channel selection; dispersion compensation; fabrication; fabrication routes; fibre gratings; filter; frequency stabilisation; link supervision; packaged fibre gratings; performance; telecommunications; telecoms industry; transmission loss; transmitters; wavelength characteristics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Optical Fibre Gratings and Their Applications, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic:19950083

Filename

478110