Title :
Performance of 80 Gb/s OTDM System Employing Gain-Switched Pulses Compressed by a Linearly and a Nonlinearly Chirped Grating
Author :
Anandarajah, P. ; Clarke, A. ; Guignard, C. ; Bramerie, L. ; Barry, L. ; Harvey, J. ; Simon, J.C.
Author_Institution :
RINCE, School of Electronic Eng., Dublin City University, Ireland, prince.anandarajah@dcu.ie
Abstract :
We demonstrate performance difference in an 80Gb/s OTDM system employing gain-switched pulses compressed using linearly and nonlinearly chirped fibre gratings. A 3.5 dB power penalty was incurred when the linearly chirped grating was used.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801012
