Chromatic dispersion characterization by direct instantaneous frequency measurement

A new concept for the measurement of chromatic dispersion is presented. The group delay of the device under test is directly obtained from the instantaneous frequency of a short optical pulse after propagation in the device, itself obtained with temporal and spectral interferometry. Temporal and spectral fringe encoding provide excellent accuracy and resistance to noise, and a wide variety of dispersions can be characterized even at high insertion losses.     

Performance analysis of dispersion compensating optical FIR filters designed using a quasi-analytic synthesis approach

In this paper we investigate the performance of a quasi-analytic synthesis approach for dispersion compensating optical finite impulse response filters. It is shown by eye opening penalty and optical signal to noise ratio penalty calculations that with this method the filters dispersion can be adjusted reliably and with low effort to compensate for a specific amount of residual chromatic dispersion in optical transmission systems. The maximum attainable dispersion is then only limited by the filter order and the free spectral range rather then by optimization problems within the filter design.     

聚焦形貌恢复方法模型设计

采用基于拉普拉斯算符聚焦形貌恢复方法,提出了模拟目标深度测量的数值模型。数值模拟的核心是基于通过几何光学预测的理想图像的卷积与透镜广义孔径函数的多色点扩散函数,即用聚焦误差替代抛物线圆柱形貌或高斯函数。该模型可以使用基于聚焦形貌恢复方法的传感器真实组件参数、光源光谱、光学系统离差、相机的光谱灵敏度。提出了光学系统离差（消球差、消色差、色差）对确定目标表面形貌的精确度和可靠性的影响。结果表明,该模型可以有效提高实验效率,缩短时滞,降低成本。     

多波长OCDMA系统频谱效率的改善

分析了色散效应对多波长OCDMA系统频谱效率的影响。在相同的扩频因子条件下,色散效应将降低多波长OCDMA系统的频谱效率峰值,同时达到频谱效率峰值的波长信道数也将相应减少。提出了将前向纠错码用于改善多波长OCDMA系统的频谱效率,分析结果表明,该方案将有效改善多波长OCDMA系统的频谱效率,特别是频谱效率峰值将明显提高。     

刻蚀衍射光栅色散特性分析

对作为波分复用关键器件之一的刻蚀衍射光栅(EDG)的色散特性提出了一种完整的计算方案,分析了器件强度响应和相位响应之间的内在关系.同时通过模拟计算提出并验证了平坦化的同时加剧了色散,以及适当改善频谱响应带通纹波大小可以在一定程度上降低器件的色散.最终指出了使用渐变的抛物线结构多模干涉更有利于得到综合性能最优的平坦频谱.     

Analyzing wavelength behavior of a cubic phase mask imaging system based on modulation transfer function

The wavefront coding technology is an effectively method for extending the depth of field. However, the phase delayed by the phase mask changes with light wavelength, and the chromatic aberration is caused by chromatic dispersion of the optical elements. The modulation transfer function (MTF) of the cubic phase mask (CPM) system is derived with considering the axial chromatic aberration and optical path difference variation with wavelength, and the wavelength behavior of CPM system is analyzed in details. We yield that the MTF is approximately wavelength invariant within a certain frequency bandwidth, and the bandwidth is nearly inverse proportional to wavelength and varies with axial chromatic aberration. The effect induced by dispersion of the CPM material is very weak. If the CPM system is illuminated by wideband spectral light and the ACA exists, then the frequency bandwidth may become narrower than the monochromatic case, and the position of image sensor can be relocated to balance frequency bandwidth among all wavelengths.     

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.     

Chromatic dispersion measurements using a virtually referenced interferometer

We present a technique for measuring the chromatic dispersion of short-length (<1 m) optical devices using unbalanced spectral interferometry and a virtual reference path. The technique combines the speed and ease of measurement of unbalanced spectral interferometry with the accuracy of balanced spectral interferometry. We demonstrate measurement accuracy for group delay and the dispersion-length product of ~10(-3) ps/m (<0.0001% relative error) and ~10(-5) ps/m (<0.5% relative error), respectively. Measurement precision is demonstrated to be ~10(-5) ps/m (<0.15% relative deviation). We validate the technique via measurement of well-known dispersion standards.     

阵列光纤在牙色测量系统中的应用

提出一种在牙色测量系统中应用阵列光纤色度传感器的新方法。该方法能够解决牙色测量中的复杂问题。采用该方法，可实现快速、精确的牙色测量，同时也能补偿平面光栅多色仪的色散。     

Performance Analysis of High-speed Optical Pulse Transmission in Dispersion-managed Nonlinear Birefringent Fiber Using Quantum Well Laser Diode Sources

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Performance Analysis of High-speed Optical Pulse Transmission in Dispersion-managed Nonlinear Birefringent Fiber Using Quantum Well Laser Diode Sources

This paper analyzes the high bit-rate optical pulse trasmission in single mode optical fiber with chromatic dispersion, polarization mode dispersion (small random birefringence) and nonlinearity. Numerical method employed can precisely describe their interactive effect on transmission performance. Different dispersion maps and the related performance are analysed. Various simulation results and discussion are given. The results show that chromatic dispersion compensation should be carefully designed. Appropriate dispersion management can also alleviate the effect of polarization mode dispersion.     

Shape selection of wavelets for accurate chromatic dispersion measurement of white-light spectral interferograms

The group delay of chirped mirrors can be directly read from the ridge of wavelet-transform of white-light spectral interferograms. In this paper, we investigate the influence of Gabor wavelet shaping factor on the precision of the group-delay dispersion extraction. The rule of selection of shaping factor is given for accurate chromatic dispersion measurement of chirped mirrors.     

2x40 Gbit/s Polarization Division Multiplexing With Bit Slot Synchronization

Polarization division multiplexing (PDM) can double the spectral efficiency of an optical transmission system. By means of simulation, the 2x40Gbit/s NRZ PDM system performance under polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and chromatic dispersion has been investigated. To realize the best performance, the bit slots of the two channels should be synchronized.     

Joint nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion pre-compensation for coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems

This paper introduces a joint nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion pre-compensation method for coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems. The research results show that this method can reduce the walk-off effect and can therefore equalize the nonlinear impairments effectively. Compared with the only other existing nonlinearity pre-compensation method, the joint nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion pre-compensation method is not only suitable for low-dispersion optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system, but also effective for high-dispersion optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing transmission system with higher input power but without optical dispersion compensation. The suggested solution does not increase computation complexity compared with only nonlinearity pre-compensation method. For 40 Gbit/s coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing 20×80 km standard single-mode fibre system, the suggested method can improve the nonlinear threshold (for Q > 10 dB) about 2.7, 1.2 and 1.0 dB, and the maximum Q factor about 1.2, 0.4 and 0.3 dB, for 2, 8 and 16 ps/(nm·km) dispersion coefficients.     

A novel chromatic dispersion monitoring method in terms of SO A spectral shift

In this paper a novel low power online chromatic dispersion (CD) monitoring method is presented, which employs spectral shift in the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The advantage of this method lies in that the required input power can be much reduced, and the filter output can be used in the dynamic CD compensation system. The simulation indicates that the filtered power decreases with CD increases, and that the monitoring range increases as the filter bandwidth increases.     

Extending the bandwidth of speckle interferometry

In speckle interferometry, the scale of the speckle array is wavelength dependent, and this limits the spectral bandwidth that can be used. A simple optical system is described to correct this effect, over a wide spectral range, by introducing a chromatic difference of magnification of opposite sign to the speckle dispersion, and variable in magnitude.     

高精度光链路授时时延估算

授时系统中信号单程传输时延的估算直接影响到授时的精度, 环路时延测试是估算单程传输时延的方法之一。在光缆授时系统中光纤的色散特性将导致不同波长光信号在同一光链路中的传输时延存在差异, 基于G.652光纤的色散特性, 提出的时延差精确估算方法, 能够得到这种传输时延的差异。仿真显示来回链路工作波长在1.55 μm附近时, 此方法能够很好地补偿时延差, 从而精确估算信号传输时延。     

Full Bandwidth Measurement of Supercontinuum Spectral Phase Coherence in Long Pulse Regime

Abstract

This article reports that spectral phase coherence in the supercontinuum in long pulse regime can be measured simply and effectively by using an interference technique with the help of a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. It is also demonstrated that chromatic dispersion on the fringe visibility of interference spectral patterns is overcome in the setup. The technique is applied to characterize supercontinuum spectral phase coherence in a highly non-linear optical fiber with different input conditions: unseeded, coherent seeded, and incoherent seeded picosecond pumps. The results confirm the phase coherence characteristic predicted theoretically in previous studies.     

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??.     

双色散二维阿达玛变换光谱仪

设计了一种双色散二维调制的阿达玛变换光谱仪,利用光栅在水平方向的谱级色散和棱镜在垂直方向的谱线色散进行二维分光。与传统的二维光谱CCD探测方法不同,该设计独辟蹊径,采用面阵数字微镜对二维光谱进行阿达玛调制,并利用单点式检测器进行光信号的检测。理论计算及光学仿真表明,与传统的二维光谱探测仪器相比,该光谱仪不仅具有高的分辨率,同时还具有很高的信噪比。