Title :
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. ; Salik, E. ; Feinberg, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate tunable dispersion slope compensation for three 10 Gbit/s WDM channels using a sampled nonlinearly-chirped FBG. The replicated sampled-FBG wavelength bands have a different 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 using our tunable dispersion-slope-compensation method over 900 and 1200 km fiber links.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; compensation; optical communication equipment; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber networks; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; BER curves; WDM channels; dispersion slope mismatch; dispersion-managed systems; fiber links; grating ripple; power penalty reduction; replicated sampled-FBG wavelength bands; sampled nonlinearly-chirped FBG; tunable dispersion slope compensation; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Explosives; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Physics; Systems engineering and theory; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-630-3
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2000.868588
