Cascadability of Uniform Fibre Bragg Grating for 40 Gbit/s RZ-OOK to NRZ-OOK Conversion

O. Ozolins, V. Bobrovs, G. Ivanovs

Institute of Telecommunications, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2013.32B077                

Abstract

The cascadability of uniform fibre Bragg grating for 40 Gbit/s return to zero on-off keying to non-return to zero on-off keying format conversion has been shown using OptSim simulation program. The main idea of this approach is use of specially designed uniform fibre Bragg grating with appropriate transfer function for shaping of 40 Gbit/s return to zero on-off keying optical spectrum. Error free performance is achieved after four cascades of uniform fibre Bragg grating with different reflectivity values.

Keywords

All-optical Devices; Fibre Bragg Grating; Fibre Optic Transmission Systems; Format Conversion; Intensity Modulation; Optical Signal Processing

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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