Title :
Ultra-fast intensity modulation via Raman gain for all-optical processing
Author :
Burdge, Geoff ; Alam, Shaif-ul ; Grudinin, Anatoly ; Khrushchev, Igor ; Durkin, Michael ; Ibsen, Morten ; White, Ian
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Phys. Sci., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
An all-optical, ultra-fast, polarization insensitive broadband intensity modulator using the Raman effect has produced 10 Gb/s (capable of >100 Gb/s) selective pulse erasure. In addition to header erasure this flexible, all-optical technique can shape pulses and create dark pulses
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; 10 Gbit/s; 100 Gbit/s; Raman effect; Raman gain; all-optical processing; all-optical ultra-fast polarization insensitive broadband intensity modulator; dark pulses; header erasure; optical communications equipment; optical pulse shaping; selective pulse erasure; ultra-fast intensity modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971612
