Tunable compensation of the dispersion slope mismatch in dispersion-managed systems using a sampled nonlinearly chirped FBG

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

12

Issue

10

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1417

Lastpage

1419

Abstract

We demonstrate dispersion slope compensation for three 10-Gbit/s wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) channels using a sampled nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (FBG) in a dispersion-managed transmission system. The replicated wavelength bands of the sampled FBG have a different wavelength separation than the WDM channels, causing each channel to experience a different dispersion compensation that can be tuned upon stretching of the FBG. We achieve significant power penalty reduction for all three channels using our dispersion-slope-compensation method with a tunable amount of dispersion over 900 and 1200 km fiber links.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; compensation; digital communication; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 1200 km; 900 km; WDM channels; dispersion slope mismatch; dispersion-managed systems; fiber Bragg grating; power penalty reduction; sampled nonlinearly chirped FBG; tunable compensation; wavelength separation; wavelength-division-multiplexing channels; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Chromatic dispersion; Explosives; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Physics; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.883849

Filename

883849