Custom Design of Long Chirped Bragg Gratings: Application to Gain-Flattening Filter with Incorporated Dispersion Compensation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 498-500

  Ibsen, Morten ^a   Durkin, Michael K ^a   Zervas, Michalis N ^a   Grudinin, Anatoly B ^a   Laming, Richard I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Kymata Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirped Bragg gratings; Dispersion compensation; Filter design; Gain flattening; Third order dispersion; WDM technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000859554     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.841265     Document Type: Article

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