Title :
Effect of in-band group delay ripple on WDM filter performance
Author :
Riziotis, Christos ; Zervas, Michalis N.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
The effects of time-delay-ripple period and amplitude in 25 GHz and 100 GHz filters for operation at 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s, respectively, are studied. It is shown that maximum transmission penalties occur at time-delay periods of ∼75% of the -20 dB data bandwidth.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical filters; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 100 GHz; 25 GHz; 40 Gbit/s; WDM filter; fibre-grating technologies; filter bandwidth; in-band group delay ripple; optical filters; thin-film technologies; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Channel spacing; Delay effects; Gratings; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989072
