Multiple stage dispersion compensation in long haul optical fibresystems using chirped fibre Bragg gratings

Modelling is used to assess the performance of an optical fibre link which has fibre grating dispersion compensators spaced at intervals along its length. A 10 Gbit/s electroabsorption modulator with high positive chirp is shown to transmit in excess of 158 km in normal dispersion fibre using two 2 cm long compensators, incurring a dispersion penalty of only 1.0 dB. Thus the transmission range is improved by a factor of 6.6 over the uncompensated case