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J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ.
Volume 12, Number 1, 2016
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| Article Number | 6 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41476-016-0006-8 | |
| Published online | 27 June 2016 | |
Research
Optimum apodization profile for chirped fiber Bragg gratings based chromatic dispersion compensator
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, 11421, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2
Wireless and Photonics Research Center, Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Received:
26
October
2015
Accepted:
12
May
2016
In this paper, we optimized the apodization profile to improve the dispersion compensation performance of the chirped fiber Bragg gratings (CFBGs). Half tanh half uniform (HTHU), half exponential half uniform (HEHU), and half hamming half uniform (HHHU) apodization profiles were evaluated at 2000 nm wavelength. At this wavelength, Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber (HC-PCF) will be the targeted fiber for the future implementation. In this work, our aim is to obtain the dispersion compensator design with minimum average group delay ripple (GDR) and maximum Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM) bandwidth. The result shows that the best FWHM bandwidth is obtained by using HTHU profile that is approximately 96.27 %. In term of GDR, all apodization profiles show similar performance.
Key words: Chromatic dispersion compensator / Chirped FBG / HC-PCF / Optimization / Apodization
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