Ultrafast Time-Spread Optical BPSK Code Label Generation and Processing Based on Variable-Bandwidth Spectrum Shaper

In experiments, we demonstrated time-spread 200-Gchip/s 10-Gb/s eight-chip optical binary phase-shift keying code generation and matched filtering based on spectral amplitude and phase control. By using a bandwidth-tunable high-resolution optical spectrum controller that we have previously developed, we were able to control spectral components with 10-GHz resolution in the entire C-band, with rectangular passbands. To demonstrate the application of this spectrum controller to tunable optical label processing, we performed experiments and simulated label generation and processing by controlling the spectrum.