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Novel Chromatic Dispersion Compensation

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Breck Hitz

A collaboration between researchers at OFS and Bell labs of Murray Hill and Holmdel, N.J., respectively, has produced a novel system for tunable fiber optic dispersion compensation that is effective with any wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signal, independent of channel count, data rate or channel spacing. The all-fiber apparatus has a lower insertion loss than any previously reported tunable compensator. Chromatic dispersion degrades the digital signal traveling through an optical fiber because the individual pulses are lengthened and start overlapping. The deleterious effect,...Read full article

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    Published: July 2003
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    wavelength division multiplexing
    A system that allows the transmission of more than one signal over a common path, by assigning each signal a different frequency band. Also known as frequency division multiplexing.
    Bell LabsCommunicationsfiber opticsOFSResearch & Technologytunable fiber optic dispersion compensationwavelength division multiplexingWDM signal

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