Effect of modulator chirp and sinusoidal group delay ripple on the performance of systems using dispersion compensating gratings

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1918-1923

  Cartledge, J C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersion compensation; Group delay ripple; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT MODULATORS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0036875687     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.806336     Document Type: Article

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