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Optica Publishing Group
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 21,
  • Issue 10,
  • pp. 2412-
  • (2003)

Subband All-Pass Filter Architectures With Applications to Dispersion and Dispersion-Slope Compensation and Continuously Variable Delay Lines

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Abstract

A new optical filter architecture is proposed that employs optical subband and all-pass filters but circumvents the typical tradeoff between passband width and peak delay inherent to all-pass filters. A filter design for a dispersion compensator with a tuning range of ± 1000 ps/nm and 95-GHz passband width on a 100-GHz grid is presented. Compared with a cascade architecture, a lower core-to-cladding index contrast for planar waveguide ring resonator implementations can be used, and lower filter losses are achieved, since the signal propagates through fewer all-pass filter stages for the same dispersion. A continuously variable delay line is designed with more than 90% bandwidth utilization. For a ten-stage all-pass filter with 25-GHz free spectral range (FSR) in a double-pass configuration,a 1000-ps continuous tuning range can be achieved. Finally, a dispersion-slope compensator design is presented with a change in dispersion of 700 ps/nm over a wavelength range determined by the filter FSR-to-channel-spacing ratio.

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