Title :
160-Gb/s tunable dispersion slope compensator using a chirped fiber Bragg grating and a quadratic heater
Author :
Reyes, Pavel Ivanoff ; Litchinitser, Natalia ; Sumetsky, Mikhail ; Westbrook, Paul S.
Author_Institution :
OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
fDate :
4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We demonstrate a tunable dispersion slope compensator using a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating and a thin-film heater that provides a variable quadratic temperature gradient along the grating. We achieved 2-10-ps/nm2 compensation over 3 nm suitable for 160-Gb/s return-to-zero signals.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; compensation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical tuning; 160 Gbit/s; chirped fiber Bragg grating; thin-film heater; tunable dispersion slope compensator; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber dispersion; Temperature control; Transistors; Voltage control; Dispersion compensation; fiber gratings; optical fiber devices;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.843690