Title :
Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring of 40-Gb/s RZ-DPSK and 80-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Data Using Cross-Phase Modulation in Highly-Nonlinear Fiber and a Simple Power Monitor
Author :
Yang, J.-Y. ; Zhang, Leiqi ; Wu, Tsai-Fu ; Wu, Xiaojie ; Christen, L.C. ; Nuccio, Salvatore ; Yilmaz, Omer Faruk ; Peng, W.-R. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Southern California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical chromatic dispersion monitoring technique utilizing cross-phase modulation in highly-nonlinear fiber for 40-Gb/s RZ-DPSK. Maximum monitored power variation of 16.5-dB is achieved in the presence of up to 120-ps/nm chromatic dispersion.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; monitoring; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; phase modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; RZ-DPSK; RZ-DQPSK; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion monitoring; cross-phase modulation; highly-nonlinear fiber; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Probes;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528604
