Demonstration of an 80 Gbit/s throughput, reconfigurable dispersion compensating WDM ADM using deuterium sensitised 10 cm step chirped fibre Bragg gratings

The authors demonstrate error free operation of a reconfigurable (dispersion compensating) WDM add drop multiplexed (ADM) optical fibre network using high rejection, low loss deuterium sensitised 10 cm step chirped fibre Bragg gratings in a 4/spl times/10 Gbit/s WDM network.