Tunable dispersion slope compensator with a chirped fiber grating and a divided thin-film heater for 160-Gb/s RZ transmissions

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1095-1097

  Matsumoto, S ^a   Takabayashi, M ^a   Yoshiara, K ^a   Sugihara, T ^a   Miyazaki, T ^b   Kubota, F ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensation; Gratings; Optical fiber dispersion; Temperature control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL FIBERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THIN FILMS; TUNING;

CHIRPED FIBER GRATING; DISPERSION SLOPE COMPENSATION; OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION LINES; THIN FILM HEATER; TUNABLE DISPERSION SLOPE COMPENSATOR;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 1942468624     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824996     Document Type: Article

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