Broadband dispersion-compensating chirped fibreBragg gratings in a 10 Gbit/s NRZ 110 km non-dispersion-shifted fibre link operatingat 1.55 µm

Abstract
Dispersion compensation of a 110 km non-dispersion shifted fibre link over a 4 nm bandwidth is demonstrated using two continuous glitch-free 36 cm long chirped fibre gratings. A 10 Gbit/s system trial shows that compensation of lasers with large wavelength tolerance is possible.