2002 · 10 citations · 0 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringDigital PerformanceGroup ProcessesPhotonicsFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationOptical Communication SystemsOptical Fiber PropagationOptical FibersOptical Signal ProcessingFiber Bragg GratingsGroup DelayOptical Time DelayPulse BroadeningSystem Performance Modeling
We experimentally show the system impact of group-delay ripple on system performance when considering a single fibre Bragg grating (FBG) and cascaded FBGs. We find that, for single gratings with different GD ripple, shorter pulse-widths can reduce the penalty induced by GD ripple, meanwhile, the impact of ripple becomes more and more serious as the data rate increases.