Chirp-free tunable PMD compensation using Hi-Bi nonlinearly-chirped FBGs in a dual-pass configuration

Author

Pan, Z. ; Xie, Y. ; Lee, S. ; Willner, A.E. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D.S. ; Feinberg, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

7-10 March 2000

Firstpage

113

Abstract

We demonstrate chirp-free tunable PMD compensation for a l0 Gbit/s signal by using an adjustable high-birefringence nonlinearly-chirped FBG in a novel dual-pass configuration that significantly reduces the chirp induced by the FBG. We show PMD compensation with tunability from 250 to 600 ps in which the power penalty due to fiber dispersion in a 45 km link interacting with the FBG induced chirp is reduced from 4 to 0.5 dB.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; birefringence; chirp modulation; error statistics; optical fiber communication; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber polarization; optical tuning; Hi-Bi nonlinearly-chirped FBGs; adjustable high-birefringence nonlinearly-chirped fibre Bragg grating; chirp-free tunable polarization-mode-dispersion compensation; dual-pass configuration; fiber dispersion; high-birefringence nonlinearly-chirped fibre Bragg grating; polarization mode dispersion; power penalty; tunability; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Chromatic dispersion; Delay effects; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical reflection; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-630-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2000.868539

Filename

868539