Improving the performance of a 10 Gbit/s optical communication system with a thermally actuated chromatic dispersion compensator based on chirped fiber Bragg gratings
✍ Scribed by B. Neto; P. André
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 535 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-2477
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this letter we describe the use of tunable chromatic dispersion compensator based on chirped fiber Bragg grating to improve the performance of a 10 Gbit/s optical fiber communication system. Tunable compensation is achieved by applying temperature gradients along the grating longitudinal axis. It is demonstrated that thermal gradients comprised between −40 and 40°C were able to change the grating dispersion from −84.88 to −218.30 ps/nm. Previously developed model that issued a BER variation on the system from 1.82 × 10^−12^ to 1.62 × 10^−9^ are consistent with the experimental evidences reported here. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 124–127, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22027