Title :
Nonlinear fibre-optic receiver for ultrashort pulse code division multiple access communications
Author :
Sardesai, Harshad P ; Weiner, Andrew M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
fDate :
3/27/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present experimental results on a nonlinear optical receiver For ultrashort pulse code division multiple access communications which uses nonlinear frequency shift effects in optical fibres to perform intensity discrimination with femtosecond response times. The receiver exhibits a contrast ratio of nearly 1000 for received pulse energies of ~1 pJ
Keywords :
code division multiple access; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; contrast ratio; femtosecond response times; intensity discrimination; multiple access communications; nonlinear fibre-optic receiver; nonlinear frequency shift effects; optical fibres; pulse code division; received pulse energies;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19970416
