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, Paul ; Kiran, S. ; Hulse, C.A.

Author_Institution

JDS Uniphase Corp., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to multi-channel tunable dispersion compensation based on multicavity etalons that can compensate all channels throughout the C or L band with either 50 GHz 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

compensation; delays; light interferometers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical resonators; optical tuning; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; C band; L band; LEAF; TrueWave RS fiber; all-pass multicavity etalons; channel spacings; dispersion slope compensation; dispersion slope compensators; large tuning range; multi-channel tunable dispersion compensation; tunable dispersion; very low group delay ripple; Bandwidth; Coatings; Delay; L-band; Optical arrays; Optical fiber devices; Optical filters; Optical tuning; Phased arrays; Reflectivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

All-Optical Networking: Existing and Emerging Architecture and Applications/Dynamic Enablers of Next-Generation Optical Communications Systems/Fast Optical Processing in Optical Transmission/VCSEL and

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7378-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2002.1027561

Filename

1027561