Compensating Multimode Fiber Dispersion Using Adaptive Optics

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Compensating Multimode Fiber Dispersion Using
Adaptive Optics
Joseph M. Kahn
Stanford UniversityDepartment of Electrical
Engineering www-ee.stanford.edu/jmk
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Acknowledgments

• Collaborators
• J. P. Wilde
• S. P. Boyd
• S. Fan
• M. A. Horowitz
• I. Lyubomirsky (Infinera Corporation)
• D. F. Welch (Infinera Corporation)
• Graduate Students
• R. A. Panicker
• M. Bagher Shemirani
• X. Shen
• E. Alon (now at UC Berkeley)
• V. Stojanovic (now at MIT)

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Modal Dispersion Compensation Using Adaptive
Optics
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Experimental Setup
X. Shen, J. M. Kahn and M. A. Horowitz, Optics
Letters, vol. 30, no. 22, pp. 2985-2987, Nov. 15,
2005.
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11 km, Worst SOP, 10 mm Offset Launch,Before
Adaptation
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11 km, Worst SOP, 10 mm Offset Launch,One
Iteration Using Step Training Sequence
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11 km, Worst SOP, 10 mm Offset Launch,After One
Iteration Using Step Training Sequence