Tunable dispersion compensation in a 160-Gb/s TDM system by a voltage controlled chirped fiber Bragg grating

Author

Eggleton, B.J. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Raybon, G. ; Ahuja, A. ; Rogers, J.A. ; Westbrook, P.S. ; Nielsen, T.N. ; Stulz, S. ; Dreyer, K.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

12

Issue

8

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1022

Lastpage

1024

Abstract

We demonstrate for the first time a device that enables practical dispersion management of a 160-Gb/s time-division multiplexer system (return-to-zero duty cycle: 30%). The dynamic dispersion is provided by an integrated chirp-tunable Bragg grating which is capable of recovering 2-ps pulses over a tuning range of 50 ps/nm with system power penalty less than 1.3 dB.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; compensation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical tuning; telecommunication network management; time division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; 2 ps; Gb/s TDM system; Gb/s time-division multiplexer system; dispersion management; dynamic dispersion; integrated chirp-tunable Bragg grating; ps pulses; return-to-zero duty cycle; system power penalty; tunable dispersion compensation; tuning range; voltage controlled chirped fiber Bragg grating; Bit rate; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Control systems; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Time division multiplexing; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.867995

Filename

867995