Fiber Dispersion and Dispersion Slope Compensation in a 40-Channel 10-Gb/s 3200-km Transmission Experiment Using Cascaded Single-Cavity Gires-Tournois Etalons

摘要

We propose a fiber dispersion and dispersion slope compensator using cascaded single-cavity Gires-Tournois etalons. We compare optical signal-to-noise ratio and bit-error-rate measurements between our proposed compensator and dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) in a 40-channel 10-Gb/s 3200-km transmission experiment. Our results show that the cascaded Gires-Tournois etalons performed as well as or better than the DCF.