Title :
Tunable two-stage 6th order FIR-filter for residual dispersion compensation
Author :
Schwarz, Stefan ; Rahim, Abdul ; Bruns, Jurgen ; Petermann, K. ; Schaeffer, C.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of High-Freq. Eng., Helmut Schmidt Univ., Hamburg, Germany
Abstract :
We show the performance of a tunable dispersion compensator realized in SOI using a parallel-serial approach. The measured transmission response for positive and negative dispersion was used to improve the dispersion tolerance of a 28 GBaud QPSK transmission system by 44%.
Keywords :
FIR filters; compensation; optical dispersion; optical filters; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon-on-insulator; QPSK transmission system; SOI; negative dispersion; parallel-serial approach; positive dispersion; residual dispersion compensation; tunable two-stage sixth-order FIR-filter;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1580
