DCM dispersion compensation
In the field of optical fiber communication, Dispersion Compensation Module ( DCM ) (also called Dispersion Compensation Unit, DCU) is used to compensate dispersion, for example, to compensate dispersion in a very long transmission fiber. Usually, this module provides a certain dispersion (eg, normal dispersion in the 1600nm spectral region), although now there are also modules with tunable dispersion. Inserting the module into a fiber optic link is very simple as there are optical connectors at the input and output. A fiber amplifier can be used to compensate the insertion loss, for example, an erbium-doped fiber amplifier can be used in a 1500nm communication system. A dispersion compensation module is usually placed between two amplifiers. The dispersion compensation module can be obtained by using the following techniques: 1. A common and simple method is to take a long piece of optical fiber, for example, dispersion-shifted optical fiber, and wind it on a bobbin with ...