Title :
Compensation of nonlinear self-phase modulation with phase modulators
Author :
Xu, C. ; Mollenauer, L. ; Liu, Xiang
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
fDate :
11/21/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The compensation of the nonlinear self-phase modulation of a 10 Gbit/s RZ data stream with phase modulators has been experimentally demonstrated. The electrical waveform that drives the phase modulators is synthesised from the recovered 10 GHz clock and its 20 GHz harmonic. The method is broadband, polarisation insensitive and allows nearly arbitrary control of the magnitude and sign of the nonlinear phase compensation.
Keywords :
compensation; optical fibre communication; optical solitons; self-phase modulation; 10 GHz; 10 Gbit/s; 20 GHz; RZ data stream; compensation; electrical waveform; harmonic; long distance fibre optic transmission; nonlinear self-phase modulation; phase modulators; polarisation insensitive; soliton transmission;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20021050
