Title :
Flatly broadened supercontinuum generation at 10 Gbit/s using dispersionflattened photonic crystal fibre with small normal dispersion
Author :
Xu, Y. ; Ren, X. ; Wang, Z. ; Zhang, X. ; Huang, Y.
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Opt. Commun. & Lightwave Technol., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun.
Abstract :
Supercontinuum generation at 10 Gbit/s using a nonlinear dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibre is experimentally demonstrated. The fibre has small normal dispersion with a variation smaller than 1.5 ps nm-1 km-1 between 1500 and 1650 nm. The supercontinuum with a flatly broadened spectrum of 92 nm (at 6 dB) in the 1.55 mum region is generated by injecting 1545 nm, 1.5 ps optical pulses into an 80 m-long fibre
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; photonic crystals; supercontinuum generation; 1.55 micron; 10 Gbit/s; 1500 to 1650 nm; dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fibre; flatly broadened spectrum; optical pulses; supercontinuum generation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20073303
