Very high efficiency spectral inverter for fiber dispersion compensation

Author

Artiglia, Massimo ; Ciaramella, Ernesto

Author_Institution

CSELT, Torino, Italy

fYear

1996

fDate

25 Feb.-1 March 1996

Firstpage

254

Lastpage

255

Abstract

Summary form only given. Mid-span spectral inversion can overcome the limitations set by chromatic dispersion on high-bit-rate transmission based on conventional fibers (i.e., fibers dispersion-optimized at 1300 nm) and combat fiber nonlinearities. Here we demonstrate a high efficiency and cost saving optical spectral inverter (SI) exploiting the modulation instability (MI) effect. Theoretical considerations show that the parametric gain of MI can lead to a substantial improvement of the conversion efficiency when a strong pump signal (about 17 dBm) is injected into a dispersion-shifted fiber in the anomalous dispersion regime. Such a SI is a completely transparent device, which contains just one booster optical fiber amplifier (OFA).

Keywords

compensation; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; 1300 nm; booster optical fiber amplifier; chromatic dispersion; conversion efficiency; dispersion-shifted fiber; fiber dispersion compensation; high-bit-rate transmission; mid-span spectral inversion; modulation instability; nonlinearities; optical spectral inverter; parametric gain; transparent device; Bit error rate; Filters; Inverters; Laboratories; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications, 1996. OFC '96

Print_ISBN

1-55752-422-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1996.908274

Filename

908274