Title :
Wavelength-tunable dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror based on dispersion-flattened high-nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber and its application in suppression of the incoherent interferometric crosstalk
Author :
Wang, Zhaoxin ; Lin, Chinlon ; Chow, Kin-Kee ; Ku, Yuen-Ching ; Bjarklev, Anders
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
Wavelength-tunable nonlinear suppression of incoherent interferometric crosstalk has been experimentally demonstrated using the dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror based on a 64-m-long dispersion-flattened high-nonlinearity photonic crystal fiber. The signal quality improvement is achieved over a wavelength range of more than 25 nm (1545-1570 nm).
Keywords :
light interferometry; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; photonic crystals; 1545 to 1570 nm; 64 m; dispersion-flattened fiber; dispersion-imbalanced mirror; high-nonlinearity fiber; incoherent crosstalk suppression; interferometric crosstalk suppression; loop mirror; photonic crystal fiber; signal quality improvement; wavelength-tunable mirror; Mirrors; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Photonic crystal fibers; Dispersion-imbalanced loop mirror (DILM); nonlinear optical signal processing; photonic crystal fiber (PCF);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.851936
