Title :
Fiber transmission for sub-500-fs pulses using a dispersion-compensating fiber
Author :
Chang, Cheng-Chun ; Weiner, Andrew M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
fDate :
9/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We report transmission of ~60-fs and ~245-fs pulses, respectively, over 42-m and 2.5-km fiber links which consist of standard single-mode fibers (SMF) concatenated with dispersion-compensating fibers (DCF). The experiments using very short pulses (~60 fs) over a short fiber length (~42 m) demonstrate the ability to achieve simultaneous dispersion and dispersion slope compensation using this technique. Femtosecond spectral interferometry measurements of this 42-m link show that its residual dispersion slope is approximately six times lower than that of the dispersion-shifted fiber. Finally, to demonstrate that the dispersion-limited propagation distance is proportional to the cube of the pulsewidth, we transmit ~245-fs pulses over a 2.5-km SMF-DCF link and achieve comparable pulse restoration as with the shorter fiber experiments
Keywords :
compensation; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometry; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; 2.5 km; 245 fs; 42 m; 500 fs; 60 fs; SMF-DCF link; dispersion slope compensation; dispersion-compensating fiber; dispersion-compensating fibers; dispersion-limited propagation distance; dispersion-shifted fiber; femtosecond spectral interferometry; fiber transmission; fs pulses; km fiber links; optical fibre communication; pulse restoration; pulsewidth; residual dispersion slope; short fiber length; shorter fiber experiments; simultaneous dispersion; standard single-mode fibers; very short pulses; Bandwidth; Concatenated codes; Dispersion; Fiber gratings; Interferometry; Optical fiber devices; Pulse amplifiers; Reflectivity; Time division multiplexing; Ultrafast electronics;
Journal_Title :
Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
