Abstract

The past years have seen considerable efforts directed toward the production of intracore, chirped, fiber Bragg reflectors,¹ with particular emphasis on applications in dispersion correction in long-distance² and in short-distance/very-high-capacity optical communications. Several techniques for the production of chirped fiber gratings have been developed (see Ref. 3 and references therein). Here we report the application to dispersion correction of a simple yet novel low-insertion-loss, polarization-independent, all-fiber transmission filter incorporating chirped Bragg reflectors.

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