• DocumentCode
    1682783
  • Title

    A Tunable Dispersion Compensator with Highly Refractive Silicon Etalons

  • Author

    Sugawara, Toshiki ; Makio, Satoshi ; Takahashi, Makoto ; Sano, Hirohisa ; Shishikura, Masato ; Kikuchi, Nobuhiko

  • Author_Institution
    Ltd., Tokyo
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We used highly refractive silicon etalons to develop a tunable dispersion compensator with plusmn250-ps/nm tunable range and low <2.3-dB loss (2.1-dB improvement). We demonstrated 40-Gbps-NRZ transmissions with 1000-ps/nm tunable range in a double-pass configuration.
  • Keywords
    compensation; optical communication equipment; optical dispersion; optical fibre communication; NRZ transmissions; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; double-pass configuration; highly refractive silicon etalons; tunable dispersion compensator; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Optical ring resonators; Optical variables control; Refractive index; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-831-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2007.4348655
  • Filename
    4348655