Dispersion compensating fibers for non-zero dispersion fibers

Author

Wandel, M. ; Kristensen, P. ; Veng, Torben ; Qian, Yi ; Le, Q. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Denmark, Brondby, Denmark

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

327

Lastpage

329

Abstract

We have for the first time to our knowledge demonstrated a single mode dispersion compensating fiber with low PMD, low loss and high Raman gain. The fiber can compensate the dispersion as well as the dispersion slope of the high slope NZDF with RDS of 0.018 nm^-1. The importance of matching not only the dispersion and dispersion slope but also the dispersion curvature has been demonstrated with a new dispersion compensating fiber for low slope NZDF with RDS of 0.018 nm^-1. The residual dispersion is measured to ±0.02 ps/(nm km) in a wide band from 1520 to 1580 nm facilitating 40 Gbit/s transmission for more than 3000 km with no individual channel dispersion correction.

Keywords

Raman lasers; compensation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; 1520 to 1580 nm; 3000 km; 40 Gbit/s; dispersion compensating fiber; dispersion compensating fibers; dispersion curvature; dispersion slope; high Raman gain; high slope NZDF; low PMD; low loss; low slope NZDF; nonzero dispersion fibers; residual fibre dispersion measurement; single mode dispersion compensating fiber; Area measurement; Attenuation measurement; Bit rate; Chromatic dispersion; Insertion loss; Interference; Optical attenuators; Optical sensors; Particle beam optics; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036395

Filename

1036395