Fiber transmission characteristics of optical solitons generated by optical pulse synthesizer

Author

Kodama, Yuichiro ; Kashiwagi, Ken ; Tanaka, Yosuke ; Kurokawa, Takashi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We generated optical soliton pulses using an optical pulse synthesizer having an arrayed waveguide grating, phase modulators and intensity modulators. We experimentally clarified optimal pulse shape for fiber transmission through different dispersion fibers.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; integrated optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; optical solitons; phase modulation; arrayed waveguide grating; dispersion fibers; fiber transmission; intensity modulators; optical pulse synthesizer; optical soliton pulses; optimum pulse shape; phase modulators; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Character generation; Optical arrays; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Phased arrays; Pulse modulation; Synthesizers; optical frequency comb; optical pulse synthesizer; optical short pulse; self phase modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3830-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292269

Filename

5292269