Demonstration of virtually-imaged phased-array device for tunable dispersion compensation in 16/spl times/10 Gb/s WDM transmission over 480 km standard fiber

Author

Garrett, L.D. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Eiselt, M.H. ; Tkach, R.W. ; Yang, C. ; Mao, C. ; Cao, S.

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs.-Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

7-10 March 2000

Firstpage

187

Abstract

A tunable dispersion compensation device based on a virtually-imaged phased-array technology with greater than 50 nm optical bandwidth is demonstrated and compared to DCF in a WDM experiment transmitting 16/spl times/10 Gb/s NRZ signals over 6/spl times/80 km of conventional fiber.

Keywords

compensation; image sensors; optical arrays; optical communication equipment; optical fiber dispersion; optical images; optical tuning; telecommunication signaling; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 160 Gbit/s; 480 km; 80 km; Gb/s NRZ signals; Gb/s WDM transmission; WDM experiment; conventional fiber; optical bandwidth; standard fiber; tunable dispersion compensation; tunable dispersion compensation device; virtually-imaged phased-array device; virtually-imaged phased-array technology; Electronic mail; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical signal processing; Passband; Temperature; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-630-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2000.869452

Filename

869452