Tunable dispersion compensator based on distributed Gires-Tournois etalons

Author

Shu, Xuewen ; Sugden, Kate ; Rhead, Philip ; Mitchell, John ; Felmeri, Ian ; Lloyd, Glynn ; Byron, Kevin ; Huang, Zhijian ; Khrushchev, Igor ; Bennion, Ian

Author_Institution

Indigo Photonics Ltd., Birmingham, UK

Volume

15

Issue

8

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1111

Lastpage

1113

Abstract

We report a novel tunable dispersion compensator (TDC) based on all-fiber distributed Gires-Tournois etalons (DGTE), which is formed by overlapped chirped fiber gratings. Two DGTEs of opposite dispersion slope work together to generate a tunable periodical dispersion profile. The demonstrated TDCs have the advantages of multichannel operation, extremely low group-delay ripple, low loss, and low cost.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; compensation; delays; light interferometers; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical tuning; all-fiber distributed Gires-Tournois etalons; distributed Gires-Tournois etalons; group-delay ripple; low cost; low loss; multichannel operation; opposite dispersion slope; tunable chirped fiber Bragg gratings; tunable dispersion compensator; tunable periodical dispersion profile; Associate members; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Costs; Fiber gratings; Optical devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical losses;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.814879

Filename

1215520