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Novel high performance all-fibre optical add/drop multiplexer based on a selective fused coupler and a single fibre Bragg grating

Novel high performance all-fibre optical add/drop multiplexer based on a selective fused coupler and a single fibre Bragg grating
Novel high performance all-fibre optical add/drop multiplexer based on a selective fused coupler and a single fibre Bragg grating
Wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) systems is the key technology for the next generation high speed optical fibre systems. Technologies for routing on a channel to channel basis in such systems are under intensive research. All-fibre channel add/drop filters with low insertion loss are required. The dominant approach is a device based on two Bragg gratings in the arms of two concatenated 3 dB fused fibre couplers [1]. The position of the two identical gratings has to be accurately controlled to provide in-phase reflection in the two arms of each coupler. This interferometric set-up requires path-length trimming during device fabrication and the correct optical phase needs to be maintained during the device lifetime.
Optical Society of America
Dong, L.
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Dong, L., Ortega, B., Reekie, L., de Sandro, J.P., Culverhouse, D.O., Farwell, S.G. and Laming, R.I. (1998) Novel high performance all-fibre optical add/drop multiplexer based on a selective fused coupler and a single fibre Bragg grating. In Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC). Optical Society of America..

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Wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) systems is the key technology for the next generation high speed optical fibre systems. Technologies for routing on a channel to channel basis in such systems are under intensive research. All-fibre channel add/drop filters with low insertion loss are required. The dominant approach is a device based on two Bragg gratings in the arms of two concatenated 3 dB fused fibre couplers [1]. The position of the two identical gratings has to be accurately controlled to provide in-phase reflection in the two arms of each coupler. This interferometric set-up requires path-length trimming during device fabrication and the correct optical phase needs to be maintained during the device lifetime.

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Published date: 1998
Venue - Dates: Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC '98), San Jose, United States, 1998-02-22 - 1998-02-27

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Author: L. Dong
Author: B. Ortega
Author: L. Reekie
Author: J.P. de Sandro
Author: D.O. Culverhouse
Author: S.G. Farwell
Author: R.I. Laming

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