Dynamic dispersion compensation in a 10-Gb/s optical system using a novel voltage tuned nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating

Author

Feng, K.M. ; Chai, J.-X. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D.S. ; Hayee, M.I. ; Lee, S. ; Jiang, X. ; Willner, A.E. ; Feinberg, J.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

11

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

373

Lastpage

375

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate dynamic dispersion compensation using a novel nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating in a 10-Gb/s system. A single piezoelectric transducer continuously tunes the induced dispersion from 300 to 1000 ps/nm. The system achieves a bit-error rate=10/sup -9/ after both 50 and 104 km of single-mode fiber by dynamically tuning the dispersion of the grating between 500 and 1000 ps/nm, respectively. The power penalty after 104 km is reduced from 3.5 to <1 dB.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; compensation; digital communication; error statistics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; piezoelectric transducers; 10 Gbit/s; 104 km; 50 km; BER; bit-error rate; continuous tuning; digital optical system; dynamic dispersion compensation; nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating; piezoelectric transducer; single-mode fiber; voltage tuned fiber Bragg grating; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; High speed optical techniques; Laser tuning; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Piezoelectric transducers; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.748240

Filename

748240