In-band dispersion limitations of uniform apodised fibre gratings
In-band dispersion limitations of uniform apodised fibre gratings
Apodisation-generated in-band dispersion can limit the useful bandwidth of gratings. We discuss how a trade-off in reflection squareness may be necessary in order to increase the useful bandwidth.
Introduction: Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is widely recognised as the technology of choice to utilise the fibre bandwidth. The key enabling technology for WDM is grating-based filters, offering low insertion loss over a wide bandwidth and good suppression of neighbouring channels when properly designed. It has recently been discussed how the dispersion on the edges of the photonic bandgap of a grating both in-band and out-of-band can cause the reflected and transmitted signals to be significantly distorted.
In this paper we show that apodisation-induced in-band dispersion can limit the useful bandwidth of gratings considered for current transmission systems. We discuss design rules depending on apodisation and length for an optimisation of the useful bandwidth.
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Ibsen, M.
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Geiger, H.
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Laming, R.I.
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1998
Ibsen, M.
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Geiger, H.
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Laming, R.I.
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Ibsen, M., Geiger, H. and Laming, R.I.
(1998)
In-band dispersion limitations of uniform apodised fibre gratings.
In Proceedings of 24th European Conference on Optical Communication.
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Apodisation-generated in-band dispersion can limit the useful bandwidth of gratings. We discuss how a trade-off in reflection squareness may be necessary in order to increase the useful bandwidth.
Introduction: Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is widely recognised as the technology of choice to utilise the fibre bandwidth. The key enabling technology for WDM is grating-based filters, offering low insertion loss over a wide bandwidth and good suppression of neighbouring channels when properly designed. It has recently been discussed how the dispersion on the edges of the photonic bandgap of a grating both in-band and out-of-band can cause the reflected and transmitted signals to be significantly distorted.
In this paper we show that apodisation-induced in-band dispersion can limit the useful bandwidth of gratings considered for current transmission systems. We discuss design rules depending on apodisation and length for an optimisation of the useful bandwidth.
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Published date: 1998
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24th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC '98), Madrid, Spain, 1998-09-20 - 1998-09-24
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