Demonstration of narrow-band acoustooptic tunable filters on dispersion-enhanced single-mode fibers

Author

Li, Qun ; Liu, Xiaoming ; Lee, H.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

11

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1551

Lastpage

1553

Abstract

The physical parameters affecting the bandwidth of acoustooptic tunable filter on single-mode (SM) fiber are investigated. Compared to standard step-index SM fiber, we found that the bandwidth-length product can be reduced by a factor of 1.3 and 4 for nonzero-dispersion-shifted and dispersion-compensating fibers (DCFs), respectively. Record narrow bandwidth of 0.4 nm is measured for a 28-cm-long DCF (D of - 100 ps/nm/km at 1550 nm). The measured results are in good agreement with calculated values.

Keywords

acousto-optical filters; compensation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical tuning; 1550 nm; 28 cm; acoustooptic mode coupling; acoustooptic tunable filter; bandwidth; bandwidth-length product; dispersion-compensating fibers; dispersion-enhanced single-mode fibers; narrow-band acoustooptic tunable filters; nonzero-dispersion-shifted fibers; physical parameters; single-mode fiber; Acoustic waves; Bandwidth; Narrowband; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber filters; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Samarium; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.803320

Filename

1041999