Dynamic Dispersion Compensation in a 10-Gb/s Optical System Using a Novel Voltage Tuned Nonlinearly Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating

K. M. Feng, J. X. Cai, V. Grubsky, D. S. Starodubov, M. I. Hayee, S. Lee, X. Jiang, A. E. Willner, J. Feinberg

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate dynamic dispersion compensation using a novel nonlinearly chirped fiber Bragg grating in a 10-Gb/s system. A single piezoelectric transducer continuously tunes the induced dispersion from 300 to 1000 ps/nm. The system achieves a bit-error rate = 10-9 after both 50 and 104 km of single-mode fiber by dynamically tuning the dispersion of the grating between 500 and 1000 ps/nm, respectively. The power penalty after 104 km is reduced from 3.5 to < 1 dB.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)373-375
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume11
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1999

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 17, 1998; revised November 3, 1998. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, by the Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering, by the Charles Less Powell Foundation, and by the NSF ERC in Integrated Media Systems.

Keywords

  • Dispersion compensation
  • Optical fiber communication
  • Optical fiber dispersion
  • Optical gratings

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