Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring of 40-Gb/s RZ-DPSK and 80-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Data Using Cross-Phase Modulation in Highly-Nonlinear Fiber and a Simple Power Monitor

Author

Yang, J.-Y. ; Zhang, Leiqi ; Wu, Tsai-Fu ; Wu, Xiaojie ; Christen, L.C. ; Nuccio, Salvatore ; Yilmaz, Omer Faruk ; Peng, W.-R. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2008

fDate

24-28 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical chromatic dispersion monitoring technique utilizing cross-phase modulation in highly-nonlinear fiber for 40-Gb/s RZ-DPSK. Maximum monitored power variation of 16.5-dB is achieved in the presence of up to 120-ps/nm chromatic dispersion.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; monitoring; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; phase modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; RZ-DPSK; RZ-DQPSK; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion monitoring; cross-phase modulation; highly-nonlinear fiber; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Monitoring; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Probes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-856-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2008.4528604

Filename

4528604