Broadband dispersion compensating fiber using index-guiding photonic crystal fiber with defected core

We present a novel broadband dispersion compensating photonic crystal fiber with defected core in this paper. The small central defect of air hole can flexibly control the chromatic dispersion properties of this kind of photonic crystal fiber. This kind of fiber has broadband large negative chromatic dispersion, and the chromatic dispersion coefficient varies from -440 to -480 ps/（nm.km） in the measured wavelength range of 1500 - 1625 nm. The calculated chromatic dispersion curve is well matched to the measured chromatic dispersion coefficient in the range of 1500 - 1625 nm. The proposed photonic crystal fiber can be used to design the dispersion compensating fiber in the desired wavelength range by adjusting its structural parameters.     

一种40Gb/s单信道光纤通信系统中的动态色度色散补偿

提出了一种用于40 Gb/s单信道光纤通信系统中的动态色度色散(CD)补偿技术。采用2×2光开关,色散补偿光纤(DCF)等器件构成可调节色度色散补偿器;提取中心频率为12GHz的窄带电功率信号作为反馈信号控制可调节色度色散补偿器,提取的窄带电功率值随系统中的累积色度色散值的增大而减小。实验证明,整个补偿系统的最长响应时间为0.7 s;补偿范围和补偿精度分别为81.55 ps/nm和5.28 ps/nm,通过增加光开关的数量和缩短每段色散补偿光纤的长度可以进一步提高补偿范围和精度。通过对比补偿前后系统的眼图可以看出:该系统能有效地补偿40 Gb/s光纤通信系统中动态变化的色度色散。     

Highly dispersive large mode area photonic bandgap fiber

An all-silica photonic bandgap fiber composed of a low-index core surrounded by alternating high- and low-index rings allows us to achieve a large mode area (500 microm(2)) and large chromatic dispersion. Sharp resonances from the even Bragg mode to odd ring modes theoretically lead to 20,000 ps/(nm km) chromatic dispersion when large bends are applied. By nature, sharp resonances are sensitive to inhomogeneities along the fiber length. Under experimental conditions, the resonances are broadened and the dispersion coefficient is decreased to 1000 ps/(nm km). However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the largest dispersion coefficient reported using a large mode area fiber.     

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a four-hole As2S5 chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber

We demonstrate the supercontinuum (SC) generation in a four-hole As₂S₅ chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber (MOF) experimentally. The As₂S₅ glass has better property of transmission than As₂S₃ glass in the visible range. The four-hole As₂S₅ MOF is fabricated by a rod-in-tube method. The SCs generated by different pump wavelengths at 2,000, 2,300 and 2,500 nm in the MOF whose length is from 2.3 to 20 cm are demonstrated. Those pump wavelengths correspond to the chromatic dispersion wavelength in the normal chromatic dispersion region, the anomalous chromatic dispersion region close to zero-dispersion wavelength (ZDW) and the anomalous chromatic dispersion region far from ZDW, respectively. Wider SCs can be obtained when pumped at a wavelength in the anomalous dispersion region close to ZDW. The widest SC range of 4,280 nm (from 1,370 to 5,650 nm) covering two octaves was obtained in a 4.8-cm-long fiber pumped at 2,300 nm.     

Temperature dependence of chromatic dispersion in various types of optical fiber

The temperature dependence of chromatic dispersion is examined for various types of fiber. Its coefficient is found to depend strongly on the dispersion slope. Dispersion-flattened fiber has a significantly low coefficient of -0.0005(ps/nm/km)/ degrees C , compared with -0.0038(ps/nm/km)/ degrees C for large-core nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber. Transmission lines with low dispersion slopes consisting of pure silica core fiber and dispersion-compensating fiber also exhibit low coefficients of less than -0.001(ps/nm/km)/ degrees C because of their compensating effects.     

Numerical Modeling of PMD

A procedure for evaluating system performance considering all orders of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is presented. The method provides engineering rules for computing system penalty introduced by PMD. Computer simulation of PMD induced penalty indicates that for generating a realistic system budget, effect of higher order PMD in presence of chromatic dispersion is essential. Considering all of these penalties, in order to obtain a system-reach of 3200 km at 40 Gb/s, a fiber PMD of less than 0.04 ps/km^1/2 is required when at the signal wavelength chromatic dispersion is 0. In presence of 18 ps/nm chromatic dispersion for the same system reach this PMD value reduces to about 0.02 ps/km^1/2.     

Tunable chromatic dispersion and dispersion slope compensator using a planar lightwave circuit lattice-form filter

A tunable chromatic dispersion and dispersion slope compensator is proposed that has a single lattice-form filter configuration. Wavelength dependence is intentionally added to its tunable couplers, which produces dispersion slope compensation in addition to the dispersion compensation. Dispersion tunability of +/- 500 ps/nm and a slope of -4.9 ps/nm(2) over 40 GHz are successfully demonstrated, thus meeting the requirement for 40 Gbits/s differential quadrature phase shift keying transmission with an 80 km long nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber.     

Broadband dispersion-compensating photonic crystal fiber

We present a modified dual-core photonic crystal fiber, based on pure silica, with special grapefruit holes in the inner cladding. The fiber has large, broadband negative dispersion, and the dispersion value varies linearly from -380 t o-420 ps/(nm km) in the C band. To decrease the fabrication difficulty, large air holes are adopted. Furthermore, the chromatic dispersion of the fiber is not sensitive to the structure parameters. So the proposed fiber structure can greatly facilitate fiber drawing and can be used for broadband dispersion compensation.     

长距离光纤CATV系统中色散补偿位置的研究

研究了1 550 nm长距离光纤CATV系统中由自相位调制和色散引起的组合二阶互调劣化及其补偿问题.得出了在自相位调制和色散情况下,多级掺铒光纤放大器级联的光纤CATV系统组合二阶互调指标的计算公式.在采用啁啾光栅进行色散补偿时,对该组合二阶互调计算公式进行了修正.分析结果表明,色散补偿器的位置对补偿效果具有很大影响,理论模型计算可以得出色散补偿器的最佳位置,计算结果得到了系统仿真的验证.     

Supercontinuum generation in ultraviolet-irradiated fibers

We demonstrate that UV exposure of highly nonlinear, germanosilicate fibers causes a strong change in their chromatic dispersion and can significantly alter the infrared supercontinuum generation in these fibers. By varying the level of UV exposure to the fiber, we show that the dispersion zero and the short-wavelength edge of the supercontinuum can be changed by more than 100 nm. A nonlinear Schr?dinger equation model of the continuum generation in the nonlinear fiber shows that the short-wavelength behavior of the continuum is primarily controlled by changes in the fiber dispersion caused by the UV-induced change in the refractive index of the fiber core.     

All-channel tunable optical dispersion compensator based on linear translation of a waveguide grating router

We propose and demonstrate a compact tunable optical dispersion compensation (TODC) device with a 100 GHz free spectral range capable of mitigating chromatic dispersion impairments. The TODC is based on longitudinal movement of a waveguide grating router, resulting in chromatic dispersion compensation of ±1000 ps/nm. We employed our TODC device for compensating 42.8 Gbit/sec differential phase-shifting keying signal, transmitted over 50 km fiber with a -2 dB power penalty at 10??.     

一种新型高双折射光子晶体光纤特性研究

设计了一种高双折射高非线性光子晶体光纤, 采用全矢量有限元法研究了这种光纤的基模模场、双折射、非线性、有效模面积及色散特性. 数值研究发现, 减小孔间距Λ的大小, 在波长1550 nm 处, 该光纤可获得10^-2 数量级的双折射B, 比普通的椭圆保偏光纤高约两个数量级; 同时, 该光纤可获得42 W^-1·km^-1 的高非线性系数γ. 另外,分别在可见光和近红外波段出现了两个零色散波长, 在波长800–2000 nm 之间具有良好的色散平坦特性. 这种设计为获得高双折射高非线性超平坦色散光子晶体光纤提供了一种新的方法, 该光纤在偏振控制、非线性光学和色散控制方面具有广泛的应用前景. 关键词： 光子晶体光纤 高双折射 高非线性 有限元法     

干涉测距仪中光纤的特性分析

提出一种由定位干涉仪和测量干涉仪组成的光纤干涉绝对距离测量方法 ,将对光程的定位过程和对距离的测量过程分别进行 ,实现对大距离的高精度绝对测量 ,同时在测量系统中引入光纤和光纤干涉仪 ,以改善系统结构和性能。详细分析了光纤损耗特性、色散特性和偏振特性对测量系统的影响 ,并特别给出了有关色散特性影响的量化分析结果。分析表明色散特性对于系统的测量范围有较大的影响     

Theoretical analysis and experimental verification of a cost-effective chromatic dispersion monitoring method in a 40-Gb/s optical fiber communication system

A cost-effective technique for in-service chromatic dispersion monitoring in a 40-Gb/s optical communication system is proposed. Microwave devices are adopted to detect the electrical power of a specific frequency band. A simplified theoretical model is proposed and discussed focusing on the relationship between electrical power and chromatic dispersion at different frequency bands. The dynamic monitoring of chromatic dispersion is achieved using devices such as PIN detector, microwave amplifier, narrow-band microwave filter, and electrical power detector. The maximum detectable chromatic dispersion is 130 ps/nm and a resolution of 5.2 ps/nm/dB has been achieved in the frequency band centered at 12 GHz.     

Highly birefringent octagonal photonic crystal fibers with two zero-dispersion wavelengths

A new highly birefringent octagonal photonic crystal fiber(Hi-Bi OPCF) with a rectangular array of four elliptical airholes in the fiber core region is proposed and analyzed using the full-vector finite element method with anisotropic perfect match layer absorbing boundaries.Numerical results show that the phase birefringence of the photonic crystal fiber(PCF) reaches 3.43×10-2 at the wavelength of 1 550 nm.Moreover,two zero-dispersion wavelengths are achieved in the visible and near infrared wavelength regions for one polarization state but not in the other.     

偏振复用光纤通信系统色散均衡器及算法的研究

设计了一种适用于偏振复用相干解调光纤通信系统的色散均衡器,用于补偿信道传输的色散损伤。该均衡器采用半码元间隔的蝶形有限脉冲响应滤波器结构,与此结构配合的自适应算法分别采用最小均方算法和递归最小二乘算法。通过仿真实验,分析了两种算法对残留色度色散和偏振模色散的补偿容限。仿真结果表明,递归最小二乘算法的补偿效果优于最小均方算法,它可以同时补偿1760ps/nm的残留色度色散和104.9ps偏振模色散引起的差分群时延,比同等条件的最小均方算法提升性能2.23dB。     

Measurement of modal dispersion in optical fiber by means of acousto-optic coupling

We show that frequency-wavelength tuning characteristics of acousto-optic coupling can be used for measuring the difference of effective index, group index, and chromatic dispersion between core and cladding modes in single-mode fibers. Chromatic dispersion measurements of a 30-cm-long conventional single-mode fiber, a nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber, and a dispersion-compensating fiber with this new method are presented for the wavelength range 1500-1600 nm. Qualitative agreement with independently measured data is obtained.     

Fiber chromatic dispersion measurement based on wavelength-to-time mapping using a femtosecond pulse laser and an optical comb filter

A novel method for the measurement of chromatic dispersion of an optical fiber based on wavelength-to-time mapping using a femtosecond pulse laser (FSPL) and an optical comb filter is proposed and experimentally evaluated. In the proposed approach, the spectrum of an ultrashort optical pulse generated by an FSPL is sliced by an optical comb filter. The spectrum-sliced optical pulse is then coupled into the optical fiber under test. Thanks to the chromatic-dispersion-induced wavelength-to-time mapping in the optical fiber under test, a time-domain waveform similar to the sliced spectrum is generated at the output of the optical fiber, with different frequency components having different time delays. The time delay vs. frequency data are then recorded for the estimation of the chromatic dispersion by using least square fitting. Chromatic dispersions of two types of optical fibers with different lengths are tested. The measured dispersion values agree well with those measured by the conventional modulation phase shift (MPS) method.     

Performance of an optical wideband WDM system considering stimulated Raman scattering,fiber attenuation and chromatic dispersion

The performance of an optical wideband wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) communication system is analyzed considering the effects of stimulated Raman scattering, fiber attenuation and chromatic dispersion. Improved models for the Raman gain and the fiber attenuation constant are proposed, which yield better and reliable performance results of the WDM system. Effect of fiber chromatic dispersion is also investigated and it is observed that dispersion can suitably be selected to overcome the limitations imposed by the stimulated Raman scattering phenomenon.     

Optical monitoring of PMD accumulation on a Pol-MUX phase-modulated signal using degree-of-polarization measurements

We experimentally demonstrate a chromatic dispersion insensitive monitoring technique for monitoring of polarization mode dispersion and time misalignment in a 80 Gbit/s polarization-multiplexed return-to-zero differential phase-shift-keying (Pol-MUX RZ-DPSK) signal using a polarimeter and degree-of polarization (DOP) measurements. This technique is modulation format independent (i.e., applicable to both the phase- and amplitude-modulated data) and capable of measuring the fast change of polarization effects caused by vibration or other fast disturbances in the fiber link. We show that the monitored DOP of this signal decreases by 10.8% with differential group delay of 0-12 ps and decreases by 20% with a maximum misalignment of 12.5 ps between two orthogonally polarized RZ-DPSK channels. These measurements are less sensitive to chromatic dispersion of 0-400 ps/nm.