• DocumentCode
    2842777
  • Title

    Reconfigurable and finely tunable optical tapped delay line to achieve 40 Gb/s equalization and correlation using conversion/dispersion based delays

  • Author

    Yilmaz, O.F. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Ahmed, N. ; Nuccio, S.R. ; Fazal, I.M. ; Wu, X. ; Willner, A.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. - Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate a tunable and reconfigurable optical tapped delay line using conversion dispersion based delays. Correlation and equalization functions are demonstrated. We observed a ~60% improvement of dispersion tolerance at an OSNR penalty of 3 dB.
  • Keywords
    delays; optical communication; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; conversion/dispersion based delays; correlation function; dispersion tolerance; equalization function; finely tunable optical tapped delay line; reconfigurable optical tapped delay line; Correlation; Correlators; Delay; Dispersion; Equalizers; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621126
  • Filename
    5621126