Abstract

A wideband chirped fiber Bragg grating (FBG) dispersion compensator operating in C band is designed theoretically by numerically solving the coupled mode equations. The power reflectivity spectrum and dispersion characteristics of the chirped fiber Bragg gratings are analysed. In order to achieve wideband dispersion compensation with a low insertion loss, grating length, average refractive index change, apodization profile and chirp parameter of the grating should be precisely optimized. The chirped FBG designs achieved in this study have resulted in a negative dispersion of 4.95 ps/nm for a grating length of L = 10 mm and a negative dispersion of 9.76 ps/nm for a grating length of L = 20 mm with 16 nm bandwidth at around 1550 nm.

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