Power penalty due to the amplitude and phase response ripple of a dispersion compensating fiber bragg grating for chirped optical signals

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3363-3369

  Cheng, N ^c,d   Cartledge, John C ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b OSA ^*  (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion compensation; Dispersion compensation fiber Bragg grating; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHASE RESPONSE; POWER PENALTY; SIGNAL BANDWIDTH;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33947653703     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.879504     Document Type: Article

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