DocumentCode
3093918
Title
Dispersion compensation of 16 ps pulses over 100 km of step-index fibre using cascaded chirped fibre gratings
Author
Taverner, D. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Barcelos, S. ; Zervas, M.N. ; Reekie, L. ; Laming, R.I.
Author_Institution
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
fYear
1995
fDate
34838
Firstpage
42644
Lastpage
42647
Abstract
A major limiting factor in upgrading the currently installed network of step-index (SI) fibre to high capacity operation in the 1550 nm spectral window is the high dispersion of the fibre in that region. Dispersion compensation using chirped photorefractive fibre Bragg gratings is one of the most promising techniques for overcoming this limitation. Currently, the relatively short length of the gratings produced (<10 cm) limits the amount of compensation possible. We demonstrate that by reflecting the data consecutively off several gratings it is possible to greatly increase this compensation and have obtained the propagation of 16 ps pulses over 100 km of SI fibre with minimal distortion
Keywords
diffraction gratings; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; 100 km; 1550 nm; 16 ps; cascaded chirped fibre gratings; chirped photorefractive fibre Bragg gratings; dispersion compensation; optical fibre networks; spectral window; step-index fibre;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Towards Terabit Transmission, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/ic:19950721
Filename
405082
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