Open AccessHigh-speed optical transmissions over a second- and third-order dispersion-managed DSF span with parametric tunable dispersion compensator
Author(s) -
Ken Tanizawa,
Takayuki Kurosu,
Shu Namiki
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.18.010594
Subject(s) - dispersion (optics) , optics , polarization mode dispersion , wideband , modal dispersion , materials science , transmission (telecommunications) , parametric statistics , multi mode optical fiber , group delay dispersion , dispersion shifted fiber , span (engineering) , optical fiber , physics , telecommunications , computer science , fiber optic sensor , engineering , statistics , mathematics , civil engineering
A wideband and fast tunable chromatic dispersion compensator is one of the key components for the future high-speed optical transmissions. We have so far proposed and demonstrated a new tunable dispersion compensation scheme called parametric tunable dispersion compensator (P-TDC), which is based on the combination of parametric frequency conversion and frequency dependent dispersive media. The P-TDC has many attractive features such as a seamlessly wideband operation, wide tunable range and fast dispersion tuning. In fact, with appropriate configurations of dispersive media, the P-TDC can compensate the dispersion slope of transmission fibers even though the second-order dispersion is small. In this paper, we use such a P-TDC scheme and successfully achieve high-speed optical transmissions over a second- and third-order dispersion managed dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) span. The transmission experiments show low-penalty 172 Gbit/s return-to-zero on-off-keying transmissions over 126-km DSF.