Paquot, YvanSchröde, Jochenvan Erps, JurgenVo, Trung DPelusi, MarkMadden, SteveLuther-Davies, BarryEggleton, Benjamin J2015-12-101094-4087http://hdl.handle.net/1885/60095We report the demonstration of automatic higher-order dispersion compensation for the transmission of 275 fs pulses associated with a Tbaud Optical Time Division Multiplexed (OTDM) signal. Our approach achieves simultaneous automatic compensation for 2nd, 3rd and 4th order dispersion using an LCOS spectral pulse shaper (SPS) as a tunable dispersion compensator and a dispersion monitor made of a photonic-chip-based all-optical RF-spectrum analyzer. The monitoring approach uses a single parameter measurement extracted from the RF-spectrum to drive a multidimensional optimization algorithm. Because these pulses are highly sensitive to fluctuations in the GVD and higher orders of chromatic dispersion, this work represents a key result towards practical transmission of ultrashort optical pulses. The dispersion can be adapted on-the-fly for a 1.28 Tbaud signal at any place in the transmission line using a black box approach.Author/s retain copyrightKeywords: All-optical; Black box approach; Fs pulse; Higher order; Higher order dispersion; Highly sensitive; Monitoring approach; Multidimensional optimization; Multiple orders; On-the-fly; Optical time-division multiplexed; Order dispersions; Pulse shaper; RF-spe20112016-02-24