Title :
Second- and third-order dispersion compensation of picosecond pulses achieved by combining two nonlinearly chirped fibre Bragg gratings
Author :
Imai, T. ; Komukai, T. ; Nakazawa, M.
Author_Institution :
Lightwave Commun. Lab., NTT Opt. Network Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
fDate :
12/10/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
With a combination of nonlinearly chirped fibre Bragg gratings, second- and third-order dispersion compensation for 1.6 and 3.5 ps pulses transmitted over a 66 km long dispersion-shifted fibre around the zero-dispersion wavelength is demonstrated for the first time
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; compensation; equalisers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; time division multiplexing; 1.6 ps; 3.5 ps; 66 km; dispersion-shifted fibre; high-speed TDM transmission; nonlinearly chirped fibre Bragg gratings; picosecond pulses; second-order dispersion compensation; third-order dispersion compensation; zero-dispersion wavelength;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19981619
