Wavelength-tunable dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror based on dispersion-flattened high-nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber and its application in suppression of the incoherent interferometric crosstalk

Author

Wang, Zhaoxin ; Lin, Chinlon ; Chow, Kin-Kee ; Ku, Yuen-Ching ; Bjarklev, Anders

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

17

Issue

9

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1911

Lastpage

1913

Abstract

Wavelength-tunable nonlinear suppression of incoherent interferometric crosstalk has been experimentally demonstrated using the dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror based on a 64-m-long dispersion-flattened high-nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber. The signal quality improvement is achieved over a wavelength range of more than 25 nm (1545-1570 nm).

Keywords

light interferometry; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; photonic crystals; 1545 to 1570 nm; 64 m; dispersion-flattened fiber; dispersion-imbalanced mirror; high-nonlinearity fiber; incoherent crosstalk suppression; interferometric crosstalk suppression; loop mirror; photonic crystal fiber; signal quality improvement; wavelength-tunable mirror; Mirrors; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Photonic crystal fibers; Dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror (DILM); nonlinear optical signal processing; photonic crystal fiber (PCF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.851936

Filename

1498900