Critical issues in reconfigurable systems and networks

Author

Willner, A.E. ; Havstad, S.A.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

1999

Firstpage

299

Abstract

Several channel degrading effects are present in non-static and dynamically-reconfigurable WDM systems and networks due to various types of dispersion in the optical transmission fiber. These effects must be addressed by tunable methods so that data signals do not fade with time. We demonstrate tunable compensation for chromatic dispersion accumulated in both single and multiple channels, and for polarization mode dispersion. We utilize a nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating that provides a dispersive function that can be varied continuously by tuning a single mechanical stretching element.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; channel degrading effects; chromatic dispersion; data signals; dispersive function; dynamically-reconfigurable WDM networks; dynamically-reconfigurable WDM systems; mechanical stretching element tuning; nonlinearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating; nonstatic WDM networks; nonstatic WDM systems; optical transmission fiber dispersion; polarization mode dispersion; reconfigurable networks; reconfigurable systems; tunable compensation; tunable methods; Bragg gratings; Delay effects; Fiber gratings; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical packet switching; Polarization mode dispersion; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.824526

Filename

824526