Tunable chromatic dispersion compensators using MEMS Gires-Tournois interferometers

Author

Yu, K. ; Solgaard, O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2002

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

182

Abstract

In this paper, we report on a FIR (finite impulse response) dispersion compensator made using optical MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology. An array of micromirrors is used in a Gires-Tournois (GT) interferometer to obtain the desired dispersion value of the device. This type of device had earlier been shown to function as an optical WDM interleaver/deinterleaver. The proposed device has a periodic transfer function in the frequency domain with a well-defined free spectral range (FSR). Because of the large number of channels in dense WDM systems, periodic filters are advantageous to avoid the need for unique filters for each WDM channel.

Keywords

compensation; light interferometers; micro-optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; Gires-Tournois interferometer; dense WDM system; free spectral range; micromirror array; optical MEMS technology; periodic filter; periodic transfer function; tunable FIR chromatic dispersion compensator; Chromatic dispersion; Finite impulse response filter; Interferometers; Microelectromechanical systems; Micromechanical devices; Micromirrors; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical MEMs, 2002. Conference Digest. 2002 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lugano, Switzerland

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7595-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OMEMS.2002.1031502

Filename

1031502