Title :
Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses from rectangular frequency comb synthesis for high spectral efficiency
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Lab. (PHOSL), Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
We present a method to produce optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with virtual zero roll-off factor based on the synthesis of phase-locked, rectangular-spectrum frequency combs. Tunability and reconfigurability are shown with <;1% power distortion.
Keywords :
Nyquist criterion; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; high spectral efficiency; optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses; power distortion; reconfigurability; rectangular frequency comb synthesis; rectangular-spectrum frequency combs; tunability; zero roll-off factor; Adaptive optics; Bandwidth; Frequency modulation; Frequency synthesizers; OFDM; Optical pulse shaping;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
