DocumentCode
840584
Title
Real-time measurement of accumulated chromatic dispersion for automatic dispersion compensation
Author
Wielandy, S. ; Fishteyn, M. ; Her, T. ; Kudelko, D. ; Zhang, C.
Author_Institution
OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
Volume
38
Issue
20
fYear
2002
fDate
9/26/2002 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1198
Lastpage
1199
Abstract
A differential measurement scheme using nonlinear optical detection in a silicon avalanche photodiode that was used to measure both the magnitude and sign of the accumulated chromatic dispersion of a stream of laser pulses at 1550 nm is demonstrated. This differential dispersion measurement scheme inherently provides a continuous error signal that was used as feedback to a tunable dispersion compensator so that laser pulses experienced zero net dispersion
Keywords
avalanche photodiodes; compensation; feedback; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical signal detection; optical variables measurement; 1550 nm; Si; Si APD; accumulated chromatic dispersion; automatic dispersion compensation; avalanche photodiode; continuous error signal; differential measurement scheme; dispersion measurement; feedback; laser pulse stream; nonlinear optical detection; real-time measurement; tunable dispersion compensator;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20020833
Filename
1040996
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