Dispersion-tailored few-mode fibers: A versatile platform for in-fiber photonic devices

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3426-3443

  Ramachandran, Siddharth ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuators; Bandpass filters; Bit error rate (BER); Broadband; Dispersion compensation; Effective area; Fiber design; Grating packaging; Grating reliability; Grating stability; Gratings; Group delay (GD); Long period fiber gratings (LPGs); Microbends; Mode conversion; Noise figure; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical nonlinearities; Optical phase matching; Optical signal to noise; Optical switch; Optical transmission systems; Polarization dependent loss (PDL); Polarizers; Sensors; Strain sensors; Temperature sensors; Tunable dispersion compensation; Tunable gratings; Variable optical attenuators (VOA)

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BIT ERROR RATE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FIBER DESIGN; FIBER PHOTONIC DEVICES; FIBER-OPTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LONG-PERIOD FIBER GRATINGS (LPGS); OPTICAL PHASE MATCHING; POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL); TUNABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATION; TUNABLE GRATINGS; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATORS (VOA);

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 30344471526     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.855874     Document Type: Article

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