Title :
Tunable Chromatic Dispersion Compensation in a 4 × 40-Gbit/s System Using Sampled Nonlinearly-Chirped Fiber Bragg Gratings (NC-FBGs)
Author :
Pan, Z. ; Song, Y.W. ; Yu, Chu ; Wang, Yannan ; Popelek, J. ; Li, Huaqing ; Li, Yuhua ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
We demonstrate tunable dispersion compensation in a 4times40-Gb/s system using sampled NC-FBGs with negligible errors from dispersion slope. The tuning ranges are 400 ps/nm for a single FBG and 600 ps/nm for a twin cascaded-inverse FBG configuration
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; 40 Gbit/s; fiber Bragg grating; tunable chromatic dispersion compensation; twin cascaded-inverse FBG configuration; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber gratings; Germanium silicon alloys; Real time systems; Silicon germanium; Temperature; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
