Title :
Tunable dispersion slope compensator using novel Gires-Tournois etalons
Author :
Shu, Xuewn ; Mitchell, John ; Gillooly, Andrew ; Chrisholm, K. ; Sugden, Kate ; Bennion, Iran
Author_Institution :
Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
We present a novel concept of tailored Gires-Tournoise etalon structure and show that such devices are very useful for the realization of dispersion slope compensator with almost arbitrary dispersion profile and also with tunability in dispersion slope.
Keywords :
compensation; light interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; Gires-Tournois etalons; tunable dispersion slope compensator;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
