Dispersion compensation in an optical communications system with an electroabsorption modulated laser and a fiber grating

Author

Koch, Barry J. ; Brennan, James F., III

Author_Institution

3M Company, St. Paul, MN, USA

Volume

15

Issue

11

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1633

Lastpage

1635

Abstract

The robustness of an optical communications system with an electroabsorption modulated laser (EML) to dispersion mismatch is investigated, where a fiber grating is used for dispersion compensation. We use 12-nm bandwidth 1360-ps/nm dispersion fiber gratings, which were fabricated to match the dispersion of 80 km of standard fiber, and an EML transmitter in a 10-Gb/s communications system testbed. We demonstrate a maximum power penalty <2 dB over a wide range of standard fiber lengths (30-110 km).

Keywords

Bragg gratings; compensation; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; metropolitan area networks; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; 10 Gbit/s; 10-Gb/s communications system testbed; 30 to 110 km; EML transmitter; dispersion compensation; dispersion fiber gratings; dispersion mismatch robustness; electroabsorption modulated laser; fiber Bragg grating; fiber length range; maximum power penalty; metropolitan area optical network; optical communications system; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber testing; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Phase distortion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.818677

Filename

1237612