Width and wavelength-tunable optical RZ pulse generation and RZ-to-NRZ format conversion at 10 GHz using spectral line-by-line control

Author

Jiang, Zhi ; Leaird, Daniel E. ; Weiner, Andrew M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

17

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2733

Lastpage

2735

Abstract

We demonstrate a method for tunable optical return-to-zero (RZ) pulse generation with large tunable wavelength range (1532∼1562 nm) and pulsewidth range (∼3-50 ps) at 10 GHz based on spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of a wavelength-tunable mode-locked laser. All-optical RZ-to-nonreturn-to-zero format conversion is also demonstrated.

Keywords

laser mode locking; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; optical tuning; 10 GHz; RZ-to-NRZ format conversion; laser mode locking; optical RZ pulse generation; pulsewidth tuning; spectral line-by-line pulse shaping; wavelength tuning; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical solitons; Pulse generation; Pulse shaping methods; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength conversion; Format conversion; line-by-line pulse shaping; mode-locked laser; nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ); optical fiber communication; return-to-zero (RZ);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.858077

Filename

1542206