Tunable nonlinearly-bend-chirped fiber Bragg grating for third-order dispersion compensation

Author

Set, S.Y. ; Goh, C.S. ; Taira, K. ; Dabarsyah, B. ; Kikuchi, K.

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

496

Lastpage

497

Abstract

Summary form only given. It has been shown that chirped fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) can be used for the compensation of not only the group velocity dispersion (GVD) but also the 3/sup rd/-order dispersion (TOD). However, conventional chirped FBGs usually suffer from group-delay ripple (GDR) problems, typically > 10 ps, caused by stitching errors, step-chirp errors and fabrication imperfections. Due to the relatively low group delay value of the TOD component compared to that of the GVD, a low GDR is highly desirable for high-quality compensation. It is also highly attractive if a device can offer tunability in the TOD component, which is not possible in conventional devices. In this paper, we propose a novel nonlinearly-bend-chirped FBG, which is tunable and has a low GDR, suitable for the compensation of TOD. We have demonstrated transmission of 10 GHz, 2.6 ps pulses over 98 km of dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) with full TOD compensation using this device.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; compensation; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre fabrication; optical modulation; optical tuning; 10 GHz; 10 ps; 2.6 ps; 98 km; FBGs; TOD compensation; TOD component; chirped FBG; chirped fiber Bragg gratings; dispersion-shifted fiber; fabrication imperfections; group delay; group velocity dispersion; group-delay ripple; nonlinearly-bend-chirped FBG; pulse transmission; step-chirp errors; stitching errors; third-order dispersion; third-order dispersion compensation; tunable nonlinearly-bend-chirped fiber Bragg grating; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Dispersion; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber devices; Optical reflection; Passband; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.948090

Filename

948090