Tunable compensation of the dispersion slope mismatch in dispersion-managed systems using a sampled nonlinearly-chirped FBG

Author

Xie, Y. ; Lee, S. ; Pan, Z. ; Cai, J.-X. ; Willner, A.E. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D. ; Salik, E. ; Feinberg, J.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

7-10 March 2000

Firstpage

271

Abstract

We demonstrate tunable dispersion slope compensation for three 10 Gbit/s WDM channels using a sampled nonlinearly-chirped FBG. The replicated sampled-FBG wavelength bands have a different separation than the WDM channels, causing each channel to experience a different dispersion compensation that can be tuned upon stretching of the FBG. We achieve significant power penalty reduction using our tunable dispersion-slope-compensation method over 900 and 1200 km fiber links.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; compensation; optical communication equipment; optical fiber dispersion; optical fiber networks; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; BER curves; WDM channels; dispersion slope mismatch; dispersion-managed systems; fiber links; grating ripple; power penalty reduction; replicated sampled-FBG wavelength bands; sampled nonlinearly-chirped FBG; tunable dispersion slope compensation; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Explosives; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Physics; Systems engineering and theory; Wavelength division multiplexing;

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.2000.868588

Filename

868588