Title :
Highly Nonlinear Bismuth-Oxide Fiber Based Dispersion Imbalanced Loop Mirror for Interferometric Noise Suppression
Author :
Fok, Mable P. ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a dispersion imbalanced loop mirror for interferometric noise suppression using a 32-cm highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber. Improvement in the receiver sensitivity has been determined at different noise levels in a 10-Gb/s BER measurement.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; BiO2; dispersion imbalanced loop mirror; highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber; interferometric noise suppression; nonlinear optics; Crosstalk; Fiber nonlinear optics; Mirrors; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528480
