Title :
Reconfigurable and finely tunable optical tapped delay line to achieve 40 Gb/s equalization and correlation using conversion/dispersion based delays
Author :
Yilmaz, O.F. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Ahmed, N. ; Nuccio, S.R. ; Fazal, I.M. ; Wu, X. ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. - Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate a tunable and reconfigurable optical tapped delay line using conversion dispersion based delays. Correlation and equalization functions are demonstrated. We observed a ~60% improvement of dispersion tolerance at an OSNR penalty of 3 dB.
Keywords :
delays; optical communication; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; conversion/dispersion based delays; correlation function; dispersion tolerance; equalization function; finely tunable optical tapped delay line; reconfigurable optical tapped delay line; Correlation; Correlators; Delay; Dispersion; Equalizers; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621126
