Continuously tunable time delay using an optically pumped linear chirped fiber bragg grating

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1465-1472

  Shahoei, Hiva ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Yao, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG); microwave photonics; optical communications; time delay

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; CO-DOPED; DELAY PERFORMANCE; DELAY RESPONSE; ER/YB CO-DOPED FIBER; ERBIUM-YTTERBIUM; GAUSSIAN PULSE; GROUP DELAY RIPPLES; LINEARLY CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICALLY PUMPED; SIMPLE METHOD;

EQUALIZERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PUMPS; TIME DELAY;

GROUP DELAY;

EID: 79955967696     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2132754     Document Type: Article

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