Title :
Simultaneous tunable dispersion compensation of many WDM channels using a sampled nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating
Author :
Cai, J.-X. ; Feng, K.-M. ; Willner, A.E. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D.S. ; Feinberg, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We fabricated and characterized a tunable dispersion compensator for multiple wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) channels using a sampled nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating, the channel dispersion can be adjusted from -200 to -1200 ps/nm, we demonstrate tunable dispersion compensation for three channels in a 10-Gb/s WDM system. All three channels achieve a BER=10/sup -9/ after propagating through either 60 or 120 km of standard single-mode fiber.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical tuning; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 120 km; channel dispersion; many WDM channels; multiple WDM channels; sampled nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating; simultaneous tunable dispersion compensation; standard single-mode fiber; tunable dispersion compensation; tunable dispersion compensator; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Refractive index; Resonance; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
