Power source for a dispersion compensation fiber optic system
This invention generally relates to an optical filter for a fiber optic communication system. An optical filter may be used, following a directly modulated laser source, and converts a partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal. The optical filter may compensate for the dispersion in the fiber optic transmission medium and may also lock the wavelength of the laser source.
This application claims priority to two U.S. provisional applications: (1) U.S. Application No. 60/395,161, filed Jul. 7, 2002; and (2) U.S. Application No. 60/401,419, filed Aug. 6, 2002, which are both hereby incorporated by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the Invention
This invention generally relates to a power source for a fiber optic system that converts a partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially modulated signal and compensates for dispersion in a transmission fiber.
2. General Background and State of the Art
Fiber optic communication systems use a variety of transmitters to convert electrical digital bits of information into optical signals that are sent through optical fibers. On the other end of the optical fiber is a receiver that converts the optical signal to an electrical signal. The transmitters modulate the signals to form bits of 1s and 0s so that information or data may be carried through the optical fiber. There are a variety of transmitters that modulate the signal in different ways. For example, there are directly modulated transmitters and indirectly modulated transmitters. The directly modulated transmitters offer a compact system having large response to modulation and are integrateable. The directly modulated transmitters are also generally less expensive than the externally modulated transmitters, which require an intensity modulator, usually LiNbO3, following the laser. One of the drawbacks of a directly modulated transmitter, however, is that its output is highly chirped. Chirp is the rapid change in optical frequency or phase that accompanies an intensity modulated signal. Chirped pulses become distorted after propagation through tens of km of dispersive optical fiber, increasing system power penalties to unacceptable levels. This has limited the use of directly modulated laser transmitters to applications with limited distances of tens of km at 2.5 Gb/s as described by P. J. Corvini and T. L. Koch, Journal of Lightwave Technology vol. LT-5, no. 11, 1591 (1987). For higher bit rate applications, the use of directly modulated transmitters may be limited to even shorter distances.
An alternative to directly modulating the laser source is using a laser source that produces a partially frequency modulated signal and an optical discriminator as discussed in UK Patent GB2107147A by R. E. Epworth. In this technique, the laser is initially biased to a current level high above threshold. A partial amplitude modulation of the bias current is applied so that the average power output remains high. The partial amplitude modulation also leads to a partial but significant modulation in the frequency of the laser output, synchronous with the power amplitude changes. This partially frequency modulated output may then be applied to a filter, such as a Fabry Perot filter, which is tuned to allow light only at certain frequencies to pass through. This way, a partially frequency modulated signal is converted into a substantially amplitude modulated signal. That is, frequency modulation is converted into amplitude modulation. This conversion increases the extinction ratio of the input signal and further reduces the chirp.
Since Epworth, a number of variations from his technique have been applied to increase the extinction ratio from the signal output of the laser. For example, N. Henmi describes a very similar system in U.S. Pat. No. 4,805,235, also using a free-space interferometer. Huber U.S. Pat. No. 5,416,629, Mahgerefteh U.S. Pat. No. 6,104,851, and Brenner U.S. Pat. No. 6,115,403 use a fiber Bragg grating discriminator in similar configurations. In the more recent work, it has also been recognized that a frequency-modulated transmitter with a frequency discriminator produces an output with lower chirp, which reduces the pulse distortion upon propagation through a communication fiber. Chirp is a time dependent frequency variation of an optical signal and generally increases the optical bandwidth of a signal beyond the Fourier-transform limit. Chirp can either improve or degrade the optical pulse shape after propagation through a dispersive fiber, depending on the sign and exact nature of the chirp. In the conventional directly modulated laser transmitter, chirp causes severe pulse distortion upon propagation through the optical fiber. This is because the speed of light in the dispersive medium is frequency dependent, frequency variations of pulses may undergo different time delays, and thus the pulse may be distorted. If the propagation distance through the medium is long as in the case of optical fibers, the pulse may be dispersed in time and its width broadened, which has an undesirable effect.
In the above systems, the discriminator is operated to increase the extinction ratio of the input signal or to remove some component of the signal in favor of the other. As such, only the amplitude variation of the discriminator has been utilized. In addition, these systems have mainly dealt with lower bit rate applications. At low bit rates, the spectrum of a modulated laser biased above its threshold includes two carriers, each carrying the digital signal used to modulate the laser. The wavelengths of the two peaks are separated by 10 GHz to 20 GHz depending on the laser and the bias. Hence, a variety of optical discriminators, Fabry-Perot, Mach-Zehnder, etc. may be used to resolve the two peaks, generally discarding the 0s bits and keeping the 1s bits, thereby increasing the extinction ratio at the output.
A Fabry-Perot filter is formed by two partially reflecting mirror surfaces, which are separated by a small gap on the order of a few micrometers. The cavity is either an air gap or a solid material formed by deposition or cut and polish method. The transmission of a Fabry-Perot filter consists of periodic peaks in optical frequency separated by the so-called free-spectral range (FSR), which is inversely proportional to the thickness of the gap. The steepness of the peaks is determined by the reflectivities of the two mirrors. However, the steeper the transmission edges, the narrower the pass-band of the filter. As such, Fabry-Perot filter may provide the steeper transmission edges or slope, but it does not provide the broad enough bandwidth for high bit rate applications such as 10 Gb/s.
At higher bit rates, the spectrum of the frequency modulated signal becomes more complicated and the choice of discriminators that may be used is limited. At high bit rates around 10 Gb/s, the information bandwidth becomes comparable to the frequency excursion of the laser, which is typically between 10 GHz to 15 GHz. In addition, the transient chirp that arises at the transitions between 1s and 0s broadens to complicate the spectrum further. In order to separate the 1 and 0 bits with the extinction ratio of 10 dB, the slope of the discriminator should be greater than 1 dB/GHz, while passing 10 Gb/s information. Under these performance criteria, a Fabry-Perot filter may not work because the bandwidth and slope characteristics of Fabry-Perot filters are such that the steeper the transmission edges, the narrower the pass-bandwidth of the filter. As illustrated in
This invention provides an optical discriminator capable of operating with a frequency modulated (FM) source at high bit rates and having dispersion that is opposite sign of the dispersion in the transmission fiber to neutralize at least some portion of the dispersion in the fiber. With the discriminator providing dispersion that is opposite sign of the dispersion in the fiber, signal degradation due to dispersion in the fiber is minimized. This invention also provides a modulated laser source and a discriminator system that compensates for the fiber dispersion as well as converting a partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal. With the discriminator that counters the dispersion in the fiber, the laser source may be directly modulated for longer reach applications.
The discriminator may be a variety of filters such as a coupled multi cavity (CMC) filter to enhance the fidelity of converting a partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal as well as introducing enhanced dispersion that is opposite sign of the dispersion in the fiber so that the optical signal may propagate further distances without being distorted. This invention may also provide a modulated laser source that is communicatably coupled to an optical filter where the filter is adapted to lock the wavelength of a laser source as well as converting the partially frequency modulated laser signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal.
Many modifications, variations, and combinations of the methods and systems and apparatus of a dispersion compensated optical filter are possible in light of the embodiments described herein. The description above and many other features and attendant advantages of the present invention will become apparent from a consideration of the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURESA detailed description with regard to the embodiments in accordance with the present invention will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
This invention provides a laser transmitter system capable of directly modulating a laser source and partially compensating for the dispersion in the fiber so that the system may be applied to faster bit rate and longer reach applications. This may be accomplished by providing a discriminator that converts frequency modulation (FM) to amplitude modulation (AM) and compensate for the dispersion in the optical fiber so that the laser source may be directly modulated. A variety of discriminators may be used such as a coupled multi-cavity (CMC) filter to enhance the fidelity of FM/AM action as well as introducing enhanced dispersion compensation. By simultaneously optimizing the FM to AM conversion as well as the dispersion compensation properties, the performance of directly modulating the laser source may be optimized.
The discriminator 106 may modify the phase of the incoming electric field as well as its amplitude. Group velocity dispersion may be defined as:
where Ddiscriminator is in units of ps/nm that may be positive or negative depending on the filter shape and frequency as illustrated in
There are a variety of filters that may be used as a discriminator. For example, the discriminator 106 may be a thin film discriminator that can operate with a FM modulated source at high bit rates with minimal sensitivity to temperature changes.
A single cavity within the CMC may have the same filter response as a Fabry-Perot filter 151 as illustrated in
A variety of optical discriminators with a desired sign of dispersion may be formed using a variety of filters including a fiber Bragg grating filter in transmission or in reflection, a multicavity thin film filter in transmission or in reflection, an arrayed waveguide grating. A Bragg grating is formed by making a periodic spatial modulation of the refractive index in a material, such as a fiber or a planar waveguide. The period of the index may be on the order of λ/2n, where λ is the wavelength of light, and n is the average refractive index of the waveguide.
Cascading filters to obtain a desirable dispersion that is opposite of the dispersion in the fiber may offer flexibility in designing a discriminator with the desirable characteristics. For example, filters with sharp slopes may require expanded optical beams so that the constituent spatial wavelets of the incident beam are substantially incident at the same angle. Typical laser beams with a finite spatial profile, such as a guassian, include plane waves having a distribution of wavevectors that have an angular distribution. This angular distribution may be determined by the spatial Fourier transform of the beam. With the characteristics of the filter changing slightly as a function of incident angle, the transmission of a beam of finite spatial extent through a filter with sharp spectral features may produce a response that may broaden relative to the ideal case. This unwanted broadening may be voided by producing the desired filter function with sharp slope by a cascading filters with smaller slopes.
Optical transmitters may need to operate within a range of temperatures, such as 0-80° C., to have minimal degradation in their output of optical waveforms. The wavelength of a semiconductor distributed feed-back (DFB) laser may change rapidly with increasing temperature, typically at a rate of dλ/dT in about 0.1 nm/C. As discussed above
A variety of laser sources may be used with this invention.
The FM modulated signal may be produced in a variety of ways. For example, the FM modulated signal may be produced by directly modulating the gain section of the laser as in
Claims
1. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source adapted to produce a partially frequency modulated signal; and
- an optical discriminator adapted to convert the partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal, where the optical discriminator is adapted to compensate for at least a portion of a dispersion in a transmission fiber.
2-35. (canceled)
36. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source adapated to produce a partially frequency modulated signal;
- an optical discriminator having an associated dispersion Dd with a either a positive or negative sign adapted to convert the partially frequency modulated signal to a substantially amplitude modulated signal; and
- a transmission medium having an associated dispersion Df with either a positive or negative sign, where the sign of Dd is an opposite sign of Df.
37. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical signal source is a directly modulated laser.
38. A fiber optic communication system according to claim 37, where the directly modulated laser is adapted to produce signals with a 2-7 dB extinction ratio.
39. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator is at least a portion of a band pass filter.
40. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 39, where the band pass filter operates in reflection.
41. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 39, where the portion of the band pass filter is a high pass filter.
42. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 39, where the portion of the band pass filter is a low pass filter.
43. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator is a thin film filter.
44. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 43, where the optical discriminator is formed by a transmission edge of the thin film filter.
45. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator has a positive slope.
46. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the substantially amplitude modulated signal has an output extinction ratio greater than about 10 dB.
47. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator has a negative slope.
48. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator is formed by cascading a number of non-interfering multicavity thin film filters.
49. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator is a coupled multi-cavity filter.
50. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator operates in reflection.
51. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator operates in transmission.
52. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator is a fiber Bragg grating filter.
53. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 52, where the Bragg grating filter is formed in a fiber.
54. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 52, where the Bragg grating filter is formed in a planar waveguide.
55. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator is a periodic filter.
56. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical discriminator is a multi-cavity etalon where the dispersion Dd of the optical discriminator occurs at a multiplicity of equally spaced wavelengths.
57. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 55, where the optical discriminator is a sampled Bragg grating filter.
58. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 57, where the sampled Bragg grating filter is formed in a fiber.
59. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 57, where the sampled Bragg grating filter is formed in a planar waveguide.
60. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 55, where the optical discriminator is a waveguide grating router.
61. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 55, where the optical discriminator is a series of cascaded etalon filters.
62. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical signal source is a single wavelength semiconductor laser.
63. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical signal source is a vertical cavity surface emitting laser.
64. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical signal source is an externally modulated laser.
65. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 64, where the optical signal includes a continuous wave laser and a phase modulator.
66. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the phase modulator is a semiconductor modulator.
67. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the phase modulator is a LiNbO3 phase modulator.
68. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the phase modulator is a semiconductor optical amplifier.
69. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 36, where the optical signal source is a tunable semiconductor laser.
70. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 69, where the tunable semiconductor laser is a distributed Bragg reflector laser.
71. The fiber optic communication system according to claim 69, where the tunable semiconductor laser is a sampled grating distributed bragg reflector laser.
72. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source adapted to produce an optical power that is a partially frequency modulated signal;
- an optical discriminator adapted to convert the partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal that splits into a reflected signal and a transmissive signal; and
- a wavelength locking circuit capable monitoring the optical signal source and the optical discriminator to compare a ratio between the optical power versus one of the reflected signal or the transmissive signal to substantially maintain the ratio constant.
73. The system according to claim 72, further including:
- a first photodiode capable of monitoring the optical power from the optical signal source; and
- a second photodiode on a reflected side of the optical discriminator to detect the reflected signal, where the wavelength locking circuit is communicatably coupled to the first and second diodes to monitor the optical signal source and the reflected signal.
74. The system according to claim 72, further including
- a first photodiode capable of monitoring the optical power from the optical signal source; and
- a second photodiode on a transmissive side of the optical discriminator to detect the transmissive signal, where the wavelength locking circuit is communicatably coupled to the first and second diodes to monitor the optical signal source and the reflected signal.
75. The system according to claim 72, further including a thermo-electric cooler (TEC) coupled to the optical discriminator, where the wavelength locking circuit is communicateably coupled to the TEC to adjust the temperature of the optical power to keep the ratio substantially constant.
76. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source adapted to produce a partially frequency modulated signal; and
- an optical discriminator adapted to convert the partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal, where the optical discriminator is adapted to reflect a portion of the partially frequency modulated signal to produce a reflected signal that is used to wavelength lock the partially frequency modulated signal, and where the optical discriminator is adapted to compensate for at least a portion of a dispersion in a transmission fiber.
77. The system according to claim 76, further including a wavelength locking circuit adapted to wavelength lock the partially frequency modulated signal by comparing the partially frequency modulated signal to the reflected signal and then adjusting the optical signal source to keep the ratio of the partially frequency modulated signal to the reflected signal substantially constant.
78. The system according to claim 76, where the optical signal source is coupled to a thermo-electric cooler that adjust the temperature of the optical signal source to keep the ratio of the partially frequency modulated signal to the reflected signal substantially constant.
79. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source adapted to produce a partially frequency modulated signal; and
- an optical discriminator adapted to convert the partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal, where the optical discriminator is adapted to transmit a portion of the partially frequency modulated signal to produce a transmissive signal that is used to wave length lock the partially frequency modulated signal, and where the optical discriminator is adapted to compensate for at least a portion of a dispersion in a transmission fiber.
80. The system according to claim 79, further including a wavelength locking circuit adapted to wavelength lock the partially frequency modulated signal by comparing the partially frequency modulated signal to the transmissive signal and then adjusting the optical signal source to keep the ratio of the partially frequency modulated signal to the transmissive signal substantially constant.
81. The system according to claim 79, where the optical signal source is coupled to a thermo-electric cooler that adjust the temperature of the optical signal source to keep the ratio of the partially frequency modulated signal to the transmissive signal substantially constant.
82. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source for producing an optical signal;
- a transmission medium having an associated dispersion Df;
- a frequency modulator between the optical signal source and the transmission medium adapted to at least partially frequency modulated the optical signal; and
- an optical discriminator having an associated dispersion Dd adapted to convert the partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal, where the associated dispersion Dd has either a positive or negative sign, where the sign Dd is an opposite sign of Df.
83. The system according to claim 82, where the optical signal source is a continuous wave source.
84. The system according to claim 82, where the optical signal source is externally modulated.
85. The system according to claim 82, where the frequency modulator is a semiconductor optical amplifier.
86. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source adapted to produce a partially frequency modulated signal;
- a first optical discriminator adapted to convert the partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal; and
- a second optical discriminator having an associated dispersion Dd adapted to receive the substantially amplitude modulated signal and compensate for at least a portion of a dispersion Df in a transmission medium, where Dd is the opposite sign of Df.
87. The system according to claim 86, where the first optical discriminator is a first coupled multi-cavity (CMC) filter having a first transmission function and a first dispersion, and the second optical discriminator is a second CMC filter having a second transmission function, where the first and second CMC filters have a combined transmission function that is substantially a product of the first and second transmission functions, and a combined dispersion that is substantially a sum of first dispersion and the associated dispersion Dd of the second optical discriminator.
88. The system according to claim 86, where the optical signal source is a directly modulated laser.
89. The system according to claim 86, where the second optical discriminator is adapted to reflect a portion of the substantially amplitude modulated signal to produce a reflected signal that is used to wavelength lock the partially frequency modulated signal.
90. The system according to claim 86, where the second optical discriminator is a Gire-Tournois interferometer.
91. The system according to claim 86, where the first optical discriminator is adapted to reflect a portion of the partially frequency modulated signal to produce a reflected signal that is used to wavelength lock the partially frequency modulated signal.
92. The system according to claim 86, where the first optical discriminator is a multi-cavity etalon filter where the dispersion Dd of the second optical discriminator occurs at a multiplicity of equally spaced wavelengths.
93. The system according to claim 86, where the first optical discriminator is a sampled Bragg grating filter.
94. The system according to claim 93, where the sampled Bragg grating filter is formed in a fiber.
95. The system according to claim 93, where the sampled Bragg grating filter is formed in a planar waveguide.
96. The system according to claim 86, further including a wavelength locking circuit adapted to wavelength lock the partially frequency modulated signal by comparing the partially frequency modulated signal to a reflected signal and then adjusting the optical signal source to keep a ratio of the partially frequency modulated signal to the reflected signal substantially constant.
97. A fiber optic communication system, comprising:
- an optical signal source, where the optical signal source is adapted to produce a partially frequency modulated signal;
- a plurality of cascading transmission filters capable of converting the partially frequency modulated signal to a substantially amplitude modulated signal; and
- a reflective filter capable of compensating for at least a portion of the dispersion in a transmission fiber.
98. The system according to claim 97, where the plurality of cascading transmission filters are multicavity thin film filters that are adapted to maintain their optical spectra substantially constant over temperature changes.
99. The system according to claim 97, where the reflective filter is a Gire-Tournois interferometer.
100. A method for transmitting optical signal through a transmission fiber, comprising: modulating an optical signal to a partially frequency modulated signal;
- converting the partially frequency modulated signal to a substantially amplitude modulated signal; and
- compensating for at least a portion of a dispersion in a transmission fiber to transmit further the optical signal through the transmission fiber.
101. The method according to claim 100, where the modulating is done directly at a laser source that produces the partially frequency modulated signal.
102. The method according to claim 101, where the laser source is a semiconductor laser, and further includes:
- biasing the semiconductor laser high above its threshold to produce an extenuation.
103. The method according to claim 100, where the compensating is done by providing dispersion that is opposite sign of the dispersion in the transmission fiber.
104. The method according to claim 100, further including:
- reflecting the frequency modulated signal to generate a negative dispersion to compensate for a positive dispersion in the transmission fiber.
105. The method according to claim 100, further including:
- comparing a ratio between a power of the optical signal versus a reflected portion of the optical signal; and
- maintaining the ratio to substantially wavelength lock the optical signal.
106. The method according to claim 1, where the step of modulating the optical signal is done by using a semiconductor laser.
107. The method according to claim 106, further including:
- comparing a ratio between a power of the optical signal versus a transmissive portion of the optical signal; and
- maintaining the ratio to substantially wavelength lock the optical signal.
108. The method according to claim 107, further including:
- adjusting the temperature of the semiconductor laser to shift the wavelength of the optical signal to maintain the ratio substantially constant.
109. The method according to claim 100, where the converting and compensating is done by a discriminator having a plurality of interfering single cavity filters that provide positive and negative transmission edges and a bandwidth, where each transmission edge has a slope.
110. The method according to claim 109, where the discriminator is a coupled multi-cavity (CMC) filter.
111. The method according to claim 100, further including cascading a plurality of non-interfering CMC filters to obtain a desirable compensating characteristics.
112. A method for transmitting optical signal through a transmission fiber for a longer reach application, comprising:
- generating a partially frequency modulated signal;
- discriminating the partially frequency modulated signal to produce a substantially amplitude modulated signal; and
- compensating for at least a portion of a dispersion in a transmission fiber.
113. The method according to claim 112, where the generating is done directly at a laser source that produces the partially frequency modulated signal.
114. The method according to claim 112, where the laser source is a semiconductor laser, and further including:
- biasing the semiconductor laser high above its threshold to produce an extenuation.
115. The method according to claim 112, where the discriminating compensates for the dispersion in the transmission fiber by providing dispersion in the discriminating that is opposite sign of the dispersion in the transmission fiber.
116. The method according to claim 112, further including:
- reflecting the frequency modulated signal to generate a negative dispersion to compensate for a positive dispersion in the transmission fiber.
117. The method according to claim 112, where the discriminating is done by a plurality of interfering single cavity filters that provide positive and negative transmission edges and a bandwidth, where each transmission edge has a slope.
118. The method according to claim 112, where the discriminating is done by a coupled multi-cavity filter.
119. The method according to claim 112, further including cascading a plurality of non-interfering coupled multi-cavity filters to obtain a desirable compensating characteristics.
120. A method for producing a frequency modulated signal, comprising:
- alternating high and low refractive index mirrors to produce a distributed bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors;
- sandwiching a gain medium between two DBR mirrors to provide a laser source;
- combining a modulated signal source and a dc bias source to produce a combined signal; and
- modulating the laser source with the combined signal to produce an optical signal that is biased above its threshold and frequency modulated.
121. The method according to claim 120, where the modulating is done directly at the laser source.
122. The method according to claim 120, where the modulating is done externally from the laser source.
123. A method for producing a frequency modulated signal, comprising:
- producing a laser;
- biasing the laser above its threshold level; and
- modulating frequency of the laser to produce at least a partially frequency modulated signal.
124. The method according to claim 123, where the producing is done by a single wavelength semiconductor laser.
125. The method according to claim 123, where the producing is done by a tunable semiconductor laser.
126. The method according to claim 123, where the modulating is done directly at the producing laser.
127. The method according to claim 123, where the modulating is done externally to the producing laser.
128. The method according to claim 123, further including:
- discriminating the partially frequency modulated signal to produce a substantially amplitude modulated signal; and
- compensating for at least a portion of a dispersion in a transmission fiber.
Type: Application
Filed: Feb 8, 2005
Publication Date: Jul 14, 2005
Inventors: Daniel Mahgerefteh (Los Angeles, CA), Parviz Tayebati (Weston, MA)
Application Number: 11/052,945