Title :
40 Gbit/s pulsewidth-maintained wavelength conversion based on a high-nonlinearity DSF-NOLM
Author :
Yu, J. ; Qian, Y. ; Clausen, A.T. ; Poulson, H.N. ; Jeppesen, P. ; Knudsen, S.N.
Author_Institution :
Res. Center COM, Tech. Univ., Lyngby, Denmark
fDate :
9/14/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present results showing that walkoff and dispersion effects are reduced when only 1 km HNL-DSF fibre is used in a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). Broadband and pulsewidth-maintained wavelength conversion at 40 Gbit/s based on a high-nonlinearity DSF-NOLM is obtained
Keywords :
error statistics; mirrors; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; pulse width modulation; 1 km; 40 Gbit/s; broadband wavelength conversion; dispersion shifted fibre; high-nonlinearity DSF-NOLM; high-nonlinearity dispersion-shifted fibre-nonlinear optical loop mirror; nonlinear optical loop mirror; pulsewidth-maintained wavelength conversion; wavelength conversion;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20001132
