Sampled nonlinearly-chirped fiber-Bragg-grating for the tunable dispersion compensation of many WDM channels simultaneously

Author

Cai, J.-X. ; Feng, K.-M. ; Willner, A.E. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D.S. ; Feinberg, J.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

20

Abstract

We have fabricated and characterized a tunable dispersion compensator that utilizes a specially designed sampled nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating (FBG), which is suitable for wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) channels. The dispersion can be tuned from 200 to -1200 ps/nm. We experimentally demonstrated tunable dispersion compensation using the sampled nonlinearly chirped FBG in a 10-Gbit/s WDM system. All three channels achieve BER=10/sup -9/ after both 60 km and 120 km of SMF by tuning the dispersion of the grating between -550 and -1100 ps/nm.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical tuning; telecommunication network management; wavelength division multiplexing; Gbit/s WDM system; WDM channels; many WDM channels; sampled nonlinearly chirped FBG; sampled nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating; sampled nonlinearly-chirped fiber-Bragg-grating; tunable dispersion compensation; tunable dispersion compensator fabrication; wavelength-division multiplexed; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Delay effects; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Physics; Reflectivity; Sampling methods; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.765982

Filename

765982