Title :
Reduction of chirped fiber grating group delay ripple penalty through UV post processing
Author :
Sumetsky, M. ; Westbrook, P.S. ; Reyes, P.I. ; Litchinitser, N.M. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Li, Y. ; Deshmukh, R. ; Soccolich, C. ; Rosca, F. ; Bennike, J. ; Liu, F. ; Dey, S.
Author_Institution :
OFS Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate adiabatic UV correction of smoothed group delay ripple from ±10 ps to ±2 ps yielding reduction of OSNR penalty (40Gbit/s CSRZ) from ∼ 4 dB to 0.5 dB over the tunable dispersion range of 270 to 750 ps/nm.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical elements; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical tuning; 4 to 0.5 dB; 40 Gbit/s; OSNR penalty; UV post processing; adiabatic UV correction; chirped fiber grating; group delay ripple penalty; tunable dispersion; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Delay; Fabrication; Fiber gratings; Frequency; Inverse problems; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248609
