Fiber Based Dispersion Compensation (Hardcover)

Section I: Conventional Dispersion Compensating Fiber: Modeling dispersion in optical fibers: applications to dispersion tailoring and dispersion compensation.- 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.- Section II: Alternative/Emerging technologies: Static and tunable dispersion management, with higher order modes of few 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 grating based tunable dispersion compensation.- Section III: Systems experiments and Impacts: Impact of DCF Properties on System Design.- A Survey of Systems Experiments Demonstrating Dispersion Compensation Technologies.