Tunable dispersion and dispersion slope compensators for 10 Gb/s using all-pass multicavity etalons

Author

Moss, D.J. ; Lamont, M. ; McLaughlin, S. ; Randall, G. ; Colbourne, P. ; Kiran, S. ; Hulse, C.A.

Author_Institution

JDS Uniphase Corp., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

15

Issue

5

fYear

2003

fDate

5/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

730

Lastpage

732

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to multichannel tunable dispersion compensation based on multicavity etalons that can compensate all channels throughout the C- or L-band with either 50- or 100-GHz channel spacings for 10-Gb/s applications. We demonstrate very low group delay ripple, large tuning range, as well as dispersion slope compensation for LEAF and TrueWave RS fiber across the L-band. In addition, we indicate that scaling the bandwidth for 40-Gb/s applications is readily achievable.

Keywords

all-pass filters; channel spacing; compensation; interference filters; optical communication equipment; optical delay lines; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical tuning; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; C-band; L-band; LEAF fiber; TrueWave RS fiber; all-pass multicavity etalons; bandwidth scaling; channel compensation; channel spacings; chromatic dispersion; dispersion slope compensators; dispersion tuning curves; large tuning range; multichannel tunable dispersion compensation; tunable dispersion compensation; very low group delay ripple; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Channel spacing; Coatings; Insertion loss; Optical arrays; Optical fiber devices; Optical filters; Phased arrays; Reflectivity;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.809921

Filename

1196151