Higher-order-mode dispersion compensation technique based on mode converter using hollow optical fiber

Author

Choi, S. ; Shin, W. ; Oh, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Kwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

178

Abstract

We have proposed a novel higher-order-mode dispersion compensating technique based on a hollow optical fiber mode converter. The mode converter shows the efficiency of more than 87% in conversion of the LP₀₁ mode of single mode fibre (SMF) to the LP₀₂ mode in a ring-core dispersion compensated fibre (DCF). Design parameters for the HOF and the mating ring-core DCF have been optimized, resulting in a very large average dispersion of -750 ps/nm/km in the C-band. Compensation of dispersion within 1 ps/nm/km, and dispersion slope within the range of -0.09 to 0.3 ps/nm²/km was estimated using 1.31 km of DCF for 60 km long SMF in the entire C-band.

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; 1.31 km; 60 km; 87 percent; C-band; design parameters; dispersion slope; higher-order-mode dispersion compensation technique; hollow optical fiber; long SMF; low optical fiber mode converter; modal interference; mode converter; mode converter efficiency; ring-core DCF; total dispersion; Chemical vapor deposition; Chromatic dispersion; Concatenated codes; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical waveguides; Polarization mode dispersion; Refractive index; Size control; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036287

Filename

1036287