Chirped fiber bragg gratings for electrically tunable time delay lines

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 408-416

  Italia, Vincenzo ^a   Pisco, Marco ^a   Campopiano, Stefania ^a   Cusano, Andrea ^a   Cutolo, Antonello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating; Optical delay lines; Optical fiber devices

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CROSSTALK; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; MODULATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TUNING;

ELECTROOPTIC MODULATORS; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; TRUE TIME DELAY (TTD);

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 18844368605     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2005.846533     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. I. Frigyes and A. J. Seeds, "Optical generated true-time delay in phased-array antennas," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 2378-2386, Sep. 1995.
2. W. Ng, A. Walston, G. Tangonan, J. J. Lee, I. Newberg, and F. Bernstein, "The first demonstration of an optically steered microwave phased array," J. Lightwave Technol, vol. 9, pp. 1124-1131, Sep. 1991.
3. Molony, L. Zhang, J. A. R. Wiliams, I. Benion, C. Edge, and J. Fells, "Fiber Bragg-grating true-time delay system: Discrete-grating array 3-b delay lines and chirped-grating 6-b delay lines," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 1527-1530, Aug. 1995.
4. G. A. Ball, W. H. Glenn, and W. W. Morey, "Programmable fiber optic delay line," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 741-743, Jun. 1994.
5. J. L. Corral, J. Martì, J. M. Fuster, and R. I. Laming, "True time-delay scheme for feeding optically controlled phased-array antennas using chirped-fiber gratings," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1529-1531, Nov. 1997.
6. B. Ortega, J. L. Cruz, J. Capmany, M. V. Andrés, and D. Pastor, "Variable delay line for phased-array antenna based on a chirped fiber grating," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 1352-1360, Aug. 2000.
7. _, "Analysis of a microwave time delay line based on a perturbed uniform fiber Bragg grating operating at constant wavelength," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 430-436, Mar. 2000.
8. N. P. Bansal and R. H. Doremus, Handbook of Glass Properties. Orlando, FL: Academic, 1986.
9. M. A. Muriel and A. Carballar, "Internal field distributions in fiber Bragg gratings," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 955-957, Jul. 1997.
10. H. Kogelnik, "Filter response on nonuniform almost-periodic structures," Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 55, pp. 109-126, 1976.
11. L. Poladian, "Graphical and WKB analysis of nonuniform Bragg gratings," Phys. Rev. E, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 4758-4767, 1993.
12. K. Ennser, M. N. Zervas, and R. I. Laming, "Optimization of apodized linearly chirped fiber gratings for optical communications," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 770-778, May 1998.
13. F. Ouellette, "Dispersion cancellation using linearly chirped Bragg grating filters in optical waveguides," Opt. Lett., vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 847-849, 1987.
14. D. Pastor, J. Capmany, D. Ortega, V. Tatay, and J. Marti, "Design of apodized linearly chirped fiber gratings for dispersion compensation," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 2581-2588, Nov. 1996.
15. B. J. Eggleton, A. Ahuja, P. S. Westbrook, J. A. Rogers, P. Kuo, T. N. Nielsen, and B. Mikkelsen, "Integrated tunable fiber gratings for dispersion management in high-bit rate systems," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1418-1432, Oct. 2000.
16. K. Ennser, M. Ibsen, D. Durkin, M. N. Zervas, and R. I. Laming, "Influence of nonideal chirped fiber grating characteristics on dispersion cancellation," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 1476-1478, Oct. 1999.
17. M. Sumetsky, N. M. Litchinitser, P. S. Westbrook, P. I. Reyes, B. J. Eggleton, Y. Li, R. Deshmukh, C. Soccolich, F. Rosca, J. Bennike, F. Liu, and S. Dey, "High-performance 40 Gbit/s fibre Bragg grating tunable dispersion compensator fabricated using group delay ripple correction technique," Electron. Lett., vol. 39, no. 16, pp. 1196-1198, Aug. 2003.
18. M. Sumetsky, P. I. Reyes, P. S. Westbrook, N. M. Litchinitser, and B. J. Eggleton, "Group delay ripple correction in chirped fiber Bragg gratings," Opt. Lett., vol. 28, no. 10, May 2003.
19. A. V. Buryak and D. Stepanov, "Correction of systematic errors in the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings," Opt. Lett., vol. 27, no. 13, pp. 1099-1101, Jul. 2002.