A chromatic dispersion monitoring scheme for flexible optical OFDM networks is presented. Coded label subcarriers are added to the signal spectrum and dispersion monitoring is performed via direct detection, followed by electronic correlation procedures. OCIS codes: (060.0060) Fiber optics and optical communications

Chromatism causes great quality degradation of the imaging system, especially for diffraction imaging. The most commonly method to overcome chromatism is refractive/diffractive hybrid optical system which, however, sacrifices the light weight and integration property of diffraction elements. A method through compensation between the structure dispersion and material dispersion is proposed to ov...

Ž . Propagation of a pulsed optical beam a train of ultrashort optical pulses inside a linear dispersive medium is studied in the far field without making the paraxial approximation. This approach permits us to obtain analytical results that are valid for relatively large diffraction angles. Pulse characteristics are found to be affected considerably by the combination of diffraction and disper...

We present a quantitative measure of the internal color dispersion within galaxies, which quantifies differences in galaxy morphology as a function of observed wavelength. We apply this statistic to a sample of local galaxies with archival images at 1500 Å and 2500 Å from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, and ground–based B–band observations in order to investigate how the internal dispersion ...

Diamond-reinforced zinc sulphide composites have increased toughness as compared to that of pure zinc sulphide. While the mechanical properties of the composites are relatively insensitive to green state processing, the optical properties are greatly affected by the processing which governs the quality of diamond dispersion. Improved dispersion and hence good optical transmission have been achi...

The use of quantum correlations between photons to measure polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and chromatic dispersion is investigated. Two types of apparatus are discussed which use coincidence counting of entangled photon pairs to allow sub-femtosecond resolution for measurement of both PMD and chromatic dispersion, as well as separation of even-order and odd-order chromatic effects in the PM...

Optical dispersion spectra at energies up to 30 eV play a vital role in understanding the chiralitydependent van der Waals–London dispersion interactions of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). We use one-electron theory based calculations to obtain the band structures and the frequency dependent dielectric response function from 0–30 eV for 64 SWCNTs differing in radius, electronic structure...

Fiber-optic dispersion and its effect on optical transmission system are analyzed. The most commonly used dispersion compensation fiber (DCF) technology is studied in this article. Three schemes (pre-compensation, postcompensation, mix-compensation of dispersion compensation) of dispersion compensation with DCF are proposed. In this study, we propose three DCF compensation scheme, pre-compensat...

We quantify the benefits of intra-channel nonlinear compensation in meshed optical networks, in view of network configuration, fibre design aspect, and dispersion management. We report that for a WDM optical transport network employing flexible 28Gbaud PM-mQAM transponders with no in-line dispersion compensation, intra-channel nonlinear compensation, for PM-16QAM through traffic, offers signifi...