Pedestal-Free Pulse Source for High Data Rate Optical Time-Division Multiplexing Based on Fiber-Optical Parametric Processes

Author

Wiberg, Andreas O J ; Brès, Camille-Sophie ; Kuo, Bill P P ; Zhao, John X. ; Alic, Nkola ; Radic, Stojan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

45

Issue

11

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1325

Lastpage

1330

Abstract

In this paper, an RF-driven pedestal-free cavity-less 40 GHz pulse source for generation of high-speed optical time-division multiplexing signal is presented. The pulse source is based on pulse compression by means of self-phase modulation in combination with subsequent filtering. Further compression and pedestal removal of the pulse was achieved in one-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifier seeded by a continuous-wave laser source. The obtained idler pulses were characterized by a full-width at half-maximum pulsewidth of 1.2 ps and an SNR of 36 dB. Generation of 320 Gb/s data stream with a Q-factor of 20 dB is successfully demonstrated using the proposed pulse source.

Keywords

Q-factor; filtering theory; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; self-phase modulation; time division multiplexing; Q-factor; RF-driven pedestal-free cavity-less pulse source; bit rate 320 Gbit/s; continuous-wave laser source; frequency 40 GHz; high-data rate OTDM; high-speed optical time-division multiplexing; one-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifier; optical fiber communication; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; self-phase modulation; subsequent filtering; time 1.2 ps; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Four-photon mixing optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM); optical fiber communication; optical parametric amplifier; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; parametric process;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2009.2027137

Filename

5286801