Title :
Tunable all-optical pre-compensation of fiber Kerr effect on multi-format DPSK signals using a nonlinearity module
Author :
Pelusi, Mark D. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate all-optical pre-compensation of the fiber Kerr-effect on 40 Gb/s signals using a negative nonlinearity module. Tunable compensation for different DPSK formats, fiber spans and WDM channels achieves up to ≈4 dB lower BER power penalty.
Keywords :
differential phase shift keying; optical Kerr effect; optical tuning; fiber Kerr effect; multi-format DPSK signals; nonlinearity module; tunable all-optical pre-compensation; Bit error rate; Differential phase shift keying; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
