In this dissertation, we investigate the designs and applications of fiber Bragg grating-based optical add-drop/cross-connect multiplexing systems for WDM long-distance trunk and ring networks, multiple AM-VSB signals transmission systems, and wideband optical amplifiers in metropolitan area network. In fiber Bragg grating-based optical add-drop/cross-connect multiplexing systems, the utilization of multi-port circulator and fiber Bragg gratings can hugely reduce the crosstalk and compact the configurations. Furthermore, we propose the utilization of Mach-Zehnder fiber Bragg grating-based devices with the associated mechanical Optical switches to construct large-dimension fixed and reconfigurable optical add-drop/cross-connect multiplexing system without the needs of additional WDM multiplexers and demultiplexers. In multiple AM-VSB signals transmission systems, we demonstrate the transmission of AM-VSB CATV video signal at 1.55-mm and 155-Mb/s data signal at 1.3-mm over a multi-mode fiber local area network (MMF-LAN) link. On the other hand, we not only demonstrate the possibility of optical circulator with optical bandpass filter, and MUX/DEMUX configurations, but also discuss the transmission distance of extension and the elimination of crosstalk for bi-directional transmission systems of multiple AM-VSB CATV signals. The system demonstration confirms the feasibility of multiple AM-VSB signals over the existing MMF-LAN and bi-directional transmission systems. For the application of wideband optical amplifiers in metropolitan area network, we also present erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) for hybrid WDM systems, and the dispersion-compensated gain-clamped 90 nm wideband optical amplifier in 10 Gb/s DWDM transmission systems. These designs, demonstrations, and results will be useful for WDM long-distance trunk and ring networks applications.

In this thesis, we propose a potentially inexpensive light source for the mulit-channel wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system applications. The spectrum-sliced incoherent light source (SILS) is alternative conventional laser source for the WDM system owing to its simplicity and flexibility. However, the spectrum-sliced source suffers from the intensity noise and spontaneous-spontaneous beat noise. Thus, it is necessary to increase the optical bandwidth or decrease the electrical bandwidth (by varying the bit rate ) to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR). We used the intra-channel four wave mixing (IC-FWM device) before the receiver to suppresses the intensity noise of the light source, thus greatly expands the optical bandwidth of the received signal. We not only demonstrated the capability of an 8 ¡Ñ 2.5 Gb/s, DWDM with 200 GHz channel spacing transmission system by utilizing only one spectrum-sliced source, but also investigate the cross-talk issue of SILS in the fiber Bragg grating-based optical add/drop multiplexer (FBG-based OADM) and the Mach-Zehnder fiber Bragg grating-based optical add/drop multiplexer (MZ FBG-based OADM) systems.

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Abstract The effects of residual stresses distribution and post-weld-shift on the signal coupling efficiency of an Optical Add & Drop Multiplex (OADM) are investigated in this thesis. The position variations between the two collimators in the OADM under the temperature cycling test and high temperature aging test have been simulated and studied. The finite element method package, i.e. MARC, is used for the stresses and deformation simulations of an OADM under different load cases. The coupled thermal-elastic-plastic model is employed in the analysis, and the creep effect of the solder is considered in the numerical simulations. The temperature dependent material properties of the 63Sn/37Pb and 96.5Sn/3.5Ag solder are used for the solder solidification, temperature cycling and aging tests. The effects of the OADM packaging parameters, i.e. the different offset angles between collimators, different solder are also studied. Besides, the same simulation and analysis has also applied on the soldering with and without cavity. A comparison between the simulated and measured results indicates that the proposed finite element model is feasible for analyzing the OADM packaging problems.