Experimental Comparison of Fibre and Grating-Based Dispersion Compensation Schemes for 40 channel 10Gb/s DWDM systems

We report an experimental comparison between broadband fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) and conventional dispersion compensating fibre (DCF) for a 40 x 10Gb/s DWDM system over 525km. A performance-optimised configuration using FBG compensators is presented.