Fiber Based Dispersion Compensation

Dr Siddharth Ramachandran obtained his Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1991, MS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1998. Since Nov. 1998, he has worked at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and subsequently OFS Laboratories, OFS-Fitel, first as a Member of Technical Staff, and since March 2003, as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Dr. Ramachandran's research focuses on fiber and fiber-grating devices in specialty, dispersion-tailored fibers. He was the technical-lead as well as team leader for Lucent Technologies efforts in defining next-generation dispersion-compensation solutions for future 40 Gb/s optical communications systems. He has authored over 90 refereed journal and conference publications, 2 book-chapters, 15 patent applications. Dr. Ramachandran has served on several conference committees, and was the program chair for the IEEE-LEOS Summer Topical meetings in 2006. Dr. Ramachandran is a member of IEEE-LEOS.

• and overview.- 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.- Modeling dispersion in optical fibers: applications to dispersion tailoring and dispersion compensation.- Static and tunable dispersion management with higher order 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-based tunable dispersion compensation.- Impact of DCF properties on system design.- Survey of systems experiments demonstrating dispersion compensation technologies.