Optical dispersion compensator suitable for use with non-wavelength-locked transmitters

Author

Doerr, Christopher R. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Buhl, Lawrence L. ; Cappuzzo, Mark A. ; Chen, Evans Yifan ; Wong-Foy, A. ; Gomez, L.T.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

24

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

166

Lastpage

170

Abstract

A compact and simple silica-waveguide 10-Gb/s tunable optical dispersion compensator (ODC) that works with uncontrolled wavelength transmitters by tracking the signal wavelength is demonstrated. Transmissions at 10.7 Gb/s over 5100 ps/nm of dispersion with a duobinary signal using a single pass of the ODC and 3825 ps/nm of dispersion with an unchirped non-return-to-zero signal using a double pass of the ODC are shown.

Keywords

integrated optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical transmitters; silicon compounds; 10 Gbit/s; 10.7 Gbit/s; duobinary signal; nonwavelength-locked transmitters; optical dispersion compensator; signal wavelength tracking; silica waveguide; tunable dispersion compensator; unchirped nonreturn-to-zero signal; uncontrolled wavelength transmitters; Monitoring; Optical devices; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical receivers; Optical ring resonators; Optical transmitters; Optical variables control; Time division multiplexing; Integrated optics; optical equalizers; optical planar waveguide components; wavelength-division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.860475

Filename

1589046