Abstract
The performance of a coupler / Bragg grating interferometric OADM is studied theoretically at 40Gb/s. Employment of such filters with typically degraded spectral responses can result in at least 0.15 dB higher Eye-Opening Penalty compared to fully optimized OADMs.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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