Novel applications of fiber Bragg grating components for next-generation wdm systems

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 58, Issue 9-10, 2003, Pages 1275-1306

  Guy, Martin ^a   Trépanier, François ^a   Doyle, Aidan ^a   Painchaud, Yves ^a   Lachance, Richard L ^a  

^a TERAXION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compensator; Distributed Bragg reflection; Equalization; Frequency filtering; Light dispersion; Optical amplifier; Optical fiber transmission; Optical filter; Optical telecommunication; Wave dispersion; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATORS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTION; FREQUENCY FILTERING; LIGHT DISPERSION;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FREQUENCIES; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MASKS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RECORDING; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0347533771     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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