Optical fiber-based dispersion compensation using higher order modes near cutoff

Higher order spatial modes in optical fibers exhibit large, negative chromatic dispersion when operated near their cutoff wavelength. By using a spatial mode-converter to selectively excite a higher order mode in specially designed multimode fiber, this dispersion can be used to compensate the positive dispersion in conventional single-mode fiber spans. In this paper, issues related to compensating fiber and mode-converter design are explored. Experimental measurements in specially designed two-mode fibers operated in LP/sub 11/ mode show negative dispersion as large as -70 ps/nm/spl middot/km at 1555 nm. Pulse propagation and system experiments employing spatial mode-converters to excite LP/sub 11/ mode in a two-mode fiber demonstrate the feasibility of this technique for dispersion compensation in lightwave systems. >

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