Fiber transmission of 250 fs optical pulses with suppressed third-order dispersion by electro-optic phase modulation

Author

Pelusi, M.D. ; Matsui, Y. ; Suzuki, A.

Author_Institution

Femtosecond Technol. Res. Assoc., Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

541

Abstract

Compensation of higher-order fiber dispersion in addition to the group-velocity (second-order) dispersion (SOD) is important for 1.55 μm optical time-division-multiplexed (OTDM) communication systems utilizing subpicosecond pulses to accommodate data-rates approaching Tbit/s. Third-order dispersion of 250 fs pulses propagating at ~5 GHz over fiber-link lengths of 600 m and 2.33 km was suppressed by applying electro-optic phase modulation after temporal stretching in a dispersion compensating fiber. Numerical simulations confirm that the technique can be equally effective at >10 GHz pulse repetition rates

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; phase modulation; time division multiplexing; 1.55 mum; 2.33 km; 250 fs; 600 m; OTDM; data-rates; dispersion compensating fiber; electro-optic phase modulation; fiber transmission; fiber-link lengths; group-velocity second-order dispersion; higher-order fiber dispersion; numerical simulations; optical pulses; optical time-division-multiplexed communication systems; pulse repetition rates; subpicosecond pulses; suppressed third-order dispersion; temporal stretching; third-order dispersion; Bandwidth; Chirp modulation; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.811838

Filename

811838