80-Gbit/s DQPSK optical tapped-delay-line equalization using finely tunable delays, phases and amplitudes

Author

Khaleghi, Salman ; Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Chitgarha, Mohammad R. ; Fazal, Irfan M. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a tunable and reconfigurable optical tapped delay line using conversion dispersion based delays with optical multicasting and multiplexing. After equalization, at BER of 10^-9 and 3 dB power penalty, dispersion tolerance is improved by >;50% and 200% for 80-Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK and 40-Gbit/s RZ-DPSK signals, respectively.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; equalisers; error statistics; multiplexing; optical delay lines; optical dispersion; optical tuning; quadrature phase shift keying; BER; DQPSK optical tapped delay-line equalization; RZ-DQPSK signal; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; conversion dispersion; dispersion tolerance; finely tunable delay; optical multicasting; optical multiplexing; reconfigurable optical tapped delay line; Dispersion; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical pumping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0213-6

Type

conf

Filename

5875454