Title :
Nearly penalty-free, <4 ps supercontinuum Gbit/s pulse generation over 1535-1560 nm
Author :
Morioka, T. ; Kawanishi, Satoki ; Mori, Kazuo ; Saruwatari, M.
Author_Institution :
NTT Transmission Syst. Labs., Kanagawa
fDate :
5/12/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Nearly penalty-free <4 ps supercontinuum WDM pulses are generated at 6.3 Gbit/s over 1535-1560 nm for the first time using a 200 nm superbroadened supercontinuum in an optical fibre pumped by 1.7 W, 3.3 ps, 1542 nm short pulses from an Er3+-doped fibre ring laser
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical pumping; ring lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.7 W; 1535 to 1560 nm; 1542 nm; 3.3 ps; 4 ps; Er3+-doped fibre ring laser; IR sources; WDM light sources; fibre laser sources; nearly penalty-free; optical communications equipment; optical fibre; optical pumping; short pulses; superbroadened supercontinuum; supercontinuum Gbit/s pulse generation; supercontinuum WDM pulses;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940520
