Title :
Experimental Demonstration of Optical Retiming Using Temporal Soliton Molecules
Author :
Johnson, Stanley ; Pau, Stanley ; Küppers, Franko
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Opt. Sci., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate optical retiming of a 10.7 Gb/s data stream utilizing the property of bound soliton pairs (or “soliton molecules”) to relax to an equilibrium temporal separation after propagation through a nonlinear dispersion alternating fiber span. Pulses offset up to 16 ps from bit center are successfully retimed. The results of the experiment are in agreement with numerical simulations. An enhanced version of this retiming scheme is analyzed using numerical simulations.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; bound soliton pairs; data stream; equilibrium temporal separation; nonlinear dispersion alternating fiber; numerical simulations; optical retiming; temporal soliton molecules; Clocks; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Nonlinear fiber optics; optical retiming; temporal solitons;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2011.2171320
