A novel all-fiber bipolar transversal filter with complementary outputs

Authors:
  • ZHZhang
    Zhang
  • WIWilliams
    Williams

Abstract
A novel all-fiber bipolar delay line filter is realized in a single-line cascaded high birefringence fiber structure. Optically coherent operation is achieved with suppression of interference noise. Complementary filter outputs give simultaneous lowpass and highpass responses.