Wavelength-tunable dispersion equalizer using a nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating pair mounted on multilayer piezoelectric transducers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1668-1670

  Inui, T ^b   Komukai, T ^a,b   Nakazawa, M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; TUNING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ADAPTIVE EQUALIZATION; DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS; HIGHER ORDER DISPERSION; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE DISPERSION EQUALIZER;

EQUALIZERS;

EID: 0034468475     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.896343     Document Type: Article

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