Tunable interchannel broad-band dispersion-slope compensation for 10-Gb/s WDM systems using a nonchannelized third-order chirped FBG

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 144-146

  Song, Y W ^a   Motaghian Nezam, S M R ^a   Starodubov, D ^b   Rothenberg, J E ^c   Pan, Z ^a   Li, H ^c   Wilcox, R ^c   Popelek, J ^c   Caldwell, R ^c   Grubsky, V ^b   Willner, A E ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b Sabeus Photonics   (United States)

^c Phaethon Communications   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad band grating; Optical fiber communications; Third order fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Tunable dispersion slope compensation

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BROADBAND DISPERSION SLOPE COMPENSATION; BROADBAND GRATING; INTERCHANNEL DISPERSION SLOPE COMPENSATION; NONLINEAR DISPERSION; RETURN TO ZERO SYSTEM; THIRD ORDER CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; TUNABLE DISPERSION SLOPE COMPENSATION;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037252328     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.805872     Document Type: Article

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