Pirelli Cavi E Sistemi S.p.a.

Jds Uniphase Corporation

University of Southampton

Cisco Photonics Italy S.r.l.

Wei-Hung Loh

Richard Ian Laming

Michael Nickolaos Zervas

Jing-Jong J Pan

David Neil Payne

Feng-Qing Zhou

John James O'Reilly

David Atkinson

Sergio Barcelos

An optical fiber transmission system includes an optical transmitter for generating light; a dispersive optical fiber link optically coupled to the optical transmitter, for transmitting the light generated by the optical transmitter; and a chirped optical fiber grating, optically coupled to the optical transmitter and to the dispersive optical fiber link, for providing at least a partial dispersion compensation to the light generated by the optical transmitter, before the light is transmitted in the dispersive optical fiber link; the chirped optical fiber grating including a polarization-maintaining optical fiber having a chirped refractive index variation

Optical fibre grating and optical fiber transmission system using such optical fiber grating

An optical transmission apparatus for transmission of optical signals at an optical wavelength of about 1550 nanometers. The optical transmission apparatus includes a single mode optical fiber link formed of optical fiber having substantially zero dispersion at an optical wavelength of about 1300 nanometers and a dispersion of about 17 picoseconds per nanometer-kilometer at an optical wavelength of about 1500 nanometers. Further, at least one dispersion compensating chirped optical fiber grating is coupled to the optical fiber link, the aggregate dispersion of the at least one dispersion compensating chirped optical fiber grating substantially compensating for the dispersion of the optical fiber link. Further, the at least one dispersion compensating chirped optical fiber grating is coupled at respective positions substantially symmetrically disposed about the longitudinal center of the optical fiber link.

Dispersion compensation in optical fibre transmission

An optical device comprises an optical fibre device having wavelength-dependent optical characteristics mounted on a bimorph element operable to bend in response to an electrical control signal, so that the wavelength-dependent optical characteristics of the optical fibre device vary in response to bending of the bimorph element.

Optical device for compensating the dispersion of optical signals

The present invention provides for an optical waveguide device comprising a gratings, primarily in the form of fiber Bragg gratings, which are sampled, interleaved and chirped to achieve different functions. By interleaving sampled fiber Bragg gratings, each with a grating period which differs from the others by an amount corresponding to a multiple of a channel spacing, a predetermined and useful optical spectrum can be produced for the optical waveguide device. By making the sample periods for the fiber Bragg gratings different from each other, the resulting reflection spectrum has missing reflection peaks. A bandpass filter can be effectively created. Furthermore, by discretely varying the grating periods of sampled fiber Bragg gratings at intervals along the optical fiber containing the gratings, a more uniform optical spectrum is produced for the optical waveguide device. Finally, by chirping the sampling function of a sampled and chirped fiber Bragg grating, compensation for both dispersion and dispersion slope of a transmission fiber can be achieved.

Interleaved sampled and chirped optical waveguide gratings for WDM channel operations and resulting devices

Optical filter device

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