2R regeneration based on dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror and its applications in WDM systems

Author

Chi, Nan ; Carlsson, Birger ; Jeppesen, Palle

Author_Institution

Res. Center COM, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

20

Issue

10

fYear

2002

fDate

10/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1809

Lastpage

1817

Abstract

2R regeneration based on dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror is investigated including the characteristics of transfer function, output extinction ratio, initial chirp, predispersion, and WDM signals transfer functions. Theoretical results show that the input peak power is a critical parameter for the dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror (DILM) and furthermore, to guarantee the multiwavelength operation of the DILM, limitations due to accumulated dispersion and dispersion slope have to be considered. Our experiment demonstrates that 6×10 Gb/s WDM signals can be successfully regenerated by a novel 2R regenerator based on a DILM consisting of a single mode fiber (SMF) and a highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) after WDM transmission over 40 km SMF of the WDM signals.

Keywords

chirp modulation; mirrors; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical repeaters; phase modulation; telecommunication signalling; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 2R regeneration; 40 km; 60 Gbit/s; WDM signals; WDM signals transfer functions; WDM systems; WDM transmission; critical parameter; dispersion slope; dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror; highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber; initial chirp; input peak power; multiwavelength operation; output extinction ratio; predispersion; single mode fiber; transfer function; Fiber nonlinear optics; Mirrors; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Repeaters; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2002.804032

Filename

1159236