Siddharth R. Fiber Based Dispersion Compensation

Springler, 2007. - 561 pagesThe mere existence of a variety of transmission fibers with different dispersive properties calls for a variety of performance metrics from today’s dispersion compensating devices. In addition, the fact that nonlinear distortions in an optical link also depend critically on the dispersion-map has yielded another mandate for today’s dispersion-compensating devices—they must not only provide specific dispersion, dispersion-slope and dispersion-curvature as a function of wavelength, they must also be designed keeping in mind their role in ultimately determining the nonlinear distortions a system accumulates. In other words, the properties of the dispersioncompensating module are one of the key parameters determining the performance of the entire network.This book provides a detailed overviewof the fiber-based technologies and devices that cover this application-space. It focuses on fiber-based devices for two reasons. Fiber-based devices are almost exclusively the only kind deployed in practical communications networks today, primarily because they have not only provided superior performance to other devices, but they have continued to improve in performance so that competing technologies have not been able to catch up. The second reason is that the subset of fiber-based devices alone represents so much variety that it was necessary to restrict the scope of this book to facilitate a detailed exposition of the most significant technologies.Subjects covered:Introduction and overview
Fiber designs for high figure of merit and high slope dispersion compensating fibers
Design optimization of dispersion compensating fibers and their packaging techniques
Dispersion compensating fiber used as a transmission fiber: inverse/reverse dispersion fiber
Dispersion compensating fibers for Raman applications
Modeling dispersion in optical fibers: applications to dispersion tailoring and dispersion compensation
Static and tunable dispersion management with higher order mode fibers
High-order mode based dispersion compensating modules using spatial mode conversion
Control of dispersion in photonic crystal fibers
Broadband fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion management
Fiber-based tunable dispersion compensation
Impact of DCF properties on system design
Survey of systems experiments demonstrating dispersion compensation technologies