Effectively Tunable Dispersion Compensation Based on Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings Without Central Wavelength Shift

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 849-851

  Kim, Junhee ^a   Bae, Junkye ^a   Han, Young Geun ^a   Hyuck Kim, Sang ^a   Jeong, Je Myung ^b   Lee, Sang Bae ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chirped fiber Bragg gratings (CFBGs); Optical fiber devices; Tunable dispersion compensation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; CANTILEVER BEAMS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (CFBG); OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; TUNABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 1642618369     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823718     Document Type: Article

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