Experimentally optimizing QKD rates via nonlocal dispersion compensation

Dispersion Compensation

D to the steady growth in demand for bandwidth, the days when optical fiber was viewed as having unlimited capacity have come to an end. Dispersion, noise, and nonlinearities pose substantial channel impairments that need to be overcome. As a result, over the last decade, signal processing has emerged as a key technology to the advancement of low-cost, high-data rate optical communication syste...

Wideband all-order polarization mode dispersion compensation via pulse shaping.

We demonstrate the application of ultrafast pulse-shaping techniques for experimental wideband all-order polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensation, for the first time to our knowledge. PMD is treated as arbitrary variations of state of polarization and phase versus wavelength, in an all-order sense. Consequently, two pulse shapers are implemented in a serial manner to compensate for the p...

9 Dispersion Compensation Devices

Dispersion Compensation Devices

Dispersion compensation plays a key role in generation, amplification and propagation of femetosecond pulses. In the dispersive medium, the pulse can be broaden or compressed depending on the sign of chirp and dispersion. To obtain the ultrashort pulses, the pulse group delay (GD) should have about frequency independence after the dispersion compensation. Especially to compress a pulse to near ...

Wideband Dispersion Compensation in Square Lattice Photonic Crystal Fibe

In this paper, a new structure is provided for the dispersion compensating photonic crystal fibers in order to broaden the chromatic dispersion and increase the dispersion compensating capability in a wide wavelength range. In the structure, putting a combination of circular holes and a star structure in the inner core clad causes the dispersion coefficient profile to be broadened, and addition...