1997
Conference Paper
Title

Cascadability of arrayed-waveguide grating (de)multiplexers in transparent optical networks

Abstract
In this paper cascadability performance of an arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer (AWGM) is evaluated theoretically and experimentally in a loop testbed showing the influence of passband narrowing, if the AWGM is well aligned to the optical carrier frequency. At a certain value of frequency detuning of the (de)multiplexers passband, single-sideband amplitude-shift keying (ASK) transmission is obtained with better cascadability performance.
Author(s)
Caspar, C.
Foisel, H.-M.
Freund, R.
Kruger, U.
Strebel, B.
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Language
English
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