Chirped-apodized Thue-Morse quasiperiodic structures for multichannel optical dispersion compensation

Abstract Nowadays, optical data transmission systems are significantly involved in telecommunication networks. Particularly, hundreds of data channels can be sent concurrently over a single optical fiber through dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and optical time division multiplexing technologies. Nevertheless, dispersion imposes main limitations for having high capacity systems with high transmission rates. This paper suggests a new dispersion compensating scheme by introducing one-dimensional chirped and apodized Thue-Morse quasiperiodic structures. Numerical investigations of the dispersion features of the proposed structure is presented. According to the acquired relatively smooth and negative slope group delay (GD) along with corresponding negative constant group velocity dispersion (GVD) of the reflection bands, it would be possible to apply the suggested structure in an efficient way in DWDM applications for multiband dispersion compensation in optical communication systems. The designed multilayer structure with short physical length and ultrahigh negative dispersion coefficient and with the free spectral range (FSR) of about 0.8 nm meets the International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization (ITU-T) Sector requirements. Besides, the impact of main structural design parameters on the spectral features of the suggested system are presented in this paper.