Multichannel Differential Group Delay Emulation and Compensation via a Phase Pulse Shaper

Author

Wang, Shawn X. ; Weiner, Andrew M.

Author_Institution

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

Volume

19

Issue

16

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1203

Lastpage

1205

Abstract

We developed a differential group delay (DGD) emulator which is based on a high spectral resolution phase pulse shaper. DGD generation has been demonstrated for up to four wavelength channels independently and simultaneously, with DGD accuracy of approximately 1 ps for up to 400-ps DGD range. For each channel, DGD versus frequency profiles can be arbitrarily programmed to user specifications. Multichannel DGD compensation has also been demonstrated using the same setup.

Keywords

importance sampling; optical fibre communication; optical pulse shaping; high spectral resolution phase pulse shaper; importance sampling; multichannel differential group delay compensation; multichannel differential group delay emulation; outage probability; polarization-mode dispersion; programmable differential group delay emulator; wavelength channels; Birefringence; Delay; Emulation; Frequency; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical signal processing; Pulse shaping methods; Testing; Wavelength division multiplexing; Fiber characterization; optical fiber communications; polarization-mode dispersion (PMD); pulse shaping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.901699

Filename

4273569