High-birefringence nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating for tunable compensation of polarization mode dispersion

Author

Lee, S. ; Khosravani, R. ; Peng, J. ; Willner, A.E. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D.S. ; Feinberg, J.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

272

Abstract

We demonstrate a tunable polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) compensator using a high-birefringence nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (HN-FBG). Our device is capable of generating a 100 ps to 320 ps time delay between the polarization axes and tunable over 2.3 nm. For a 10-Gbit/s signal, we show that 170-ps tunability is realized by stretching the HN-FBG.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; birefringence; chirp modulation; compensation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical tuning; 10 Gbit/s; 170 ps; high-birefringence nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating; optical fiber; polarization mode dispersion; time delay; tunable compensation; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Delay effects; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical reflection; Polarization mode dispersion; Refractive index;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.767859

Filename

767859