Recent progress on FBG-based tunable dispersion compensators for 40 Gb/s applications

OFC/NFOEC 2007 - Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Painchaud, Yves ^a   Lapointe, Martin ^a   Trépanier, François ^a   Lachance, Richard L ^a   Paquet, Carl ^a   Guy, Martin ^a  

^a TERAXION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; TUNING;

CHANNEL DEVICES; CHANNEL SPACING; TUNABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 39749135543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2007.4348727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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