Tunable dispersion slope compensator with a chirped fiber grating and a divided thin-film heater for 160-Gb/s RZ transmissions

Author

Matsumoto, S. ; Takabayashi, M. ; Yoshiara, K. ; Sugihara, T. ; Miyazaki, T. ; Kubota, F.

Author_Institution

Adv. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

16

Issue

4

fYear

2004

fDate

4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1095

Lastpage

1097

Abstract

We have developed the tunable dispersion slope compensator with a chirped fiber grating and a divided thin-film heater composed of 32 thin-film heaters for single-channel 160-Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ) transmission. We successfully demonstrated the dispersion slope change between -20 and +20 ps/nm² and ability of this dispersion slope compensation in 160-Gb/s RZ transmission by the simulations.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical films; optical tuning; 160 Gbit/s; 160-Gb/s RZ transmissions; chirped fiber grating; dispersion slope compensation; divided thin-film heater; single-channel 160-Gb/s return-to-zero transmission; tunable dispersion slope compensator; Bit rate; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Resistance heating; Temperature control; Temperature distribution; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.824996

Filename

1281882