In-Line Polarization-Insensitive Parametric Tunable Dispersion Compensator for WDM Signals

Author

Tanizawa, Ken ; Kurumida, Junya ; Takahashi, Masanori ; Yagi, Takeshi ; Namiki, Shu

Author_Institution

Network Photonics Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Tsukuba, Japan

Volume

30

Issue

11

fYear

2012

fDate

6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1750

Lastpage

1756

Abstract

We develop frequency-preserving parametric tunable dispersion compensator (P-TDC) with polarization diversity for simultaneous dispersion compensation of wavelength division multiplexing channels. The in-line polarization-insensitive P-TDC is composed of cascaded parametric tunable frequency converters based on degenerate four-wave mixing process in polarization-maintaining highly nonlinear fibers with a low dispersion slope. Dispersion-managed error-free transmission of four channels of 43 Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero ON-OFF keying signal is successfully demonstrated over 126 km dispersion-shifted fiber with the in-line polarization-insensitive P-TDC.

Keywords

diversity reception; multiwave mixing; optical communication; optical frequency conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM signals; cascaded parametric tunable frequency converters; degenerate four-wave mixing process; frequency-preserving parametric tunable dispersion compensator; in-line polarization-insensitive parametric tunable dispersion compensator; polarization diversity; simultaneous dispersion compensation; wavelength division multiplexing channels; Bandwidth; Dispersion; Frequency conversion; Optical polarization; Optical wavelength conversion; Tuning; Wavelength division multiplexing; Chromatic dispersion compensation; fiber nonlinear optics; four-wave mixing (FWM); optical fiber communication; optical signal processing; optical wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2012.2189553

Filename

6166839