Power penalty for optical signals due to dispersion slope in WDM filter cascades

Author

Kuznetsov, Mark ; Froberg, Nan M. ; Henion, Scott R. ; Rauschenbach, Kristin A.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

671

Abstract

The power penalty due to the dispersion slope of WDM filters limits the number of cascaded filters and restricts the allowed signal-filter detuning. This dispersive penalty is significantly larger for optically-preamplified receivers. The results in this paper apply to systems with arbitrary bit rates. When dispersive penalties become a limitation, chirped Bragg filters with compensated dispersion slope or dispersionless waveguide-grating-router and Mach-Zehnder filters can be used

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical receivers; optical tuning; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; Mach-Zehnder filters; WDM filter cascades; allowed signal-filter detuning; arbitrary bit rates; cascaded filters; chirped Bragg filters; compensated dispersion slope; dispersion slope; dispersionless waveguide-grating-router; dispersive penalties; optical signal; optically-preamplified receivers; power penalty; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Dispersion; Optical distortion; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Passband; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.811905

Filename

811905