Title :
Pulse retiming using cross-phase modulation by orthogonal polarized pulses in an anomalous-dispersion polarization-maintaining fiber
Author :
Abedin, Kazi S. ; Kubota, Fumito
Author_Institution :
National Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate retiming of pulses by orthogonal-polarized control pulses co-propagating in an anomalous-dispersion polarization-maintaining fiber. Through walk-off free cross-phase modulation in 500-m long fiber, 2.2-ps pulses at 10-GHz-rate are retime by as much as ±2 ps.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; phase modulation; -2 to 2 ps; 10 GHz; 2.2 ps; 500 m; anomalous-dispersion fiber; cross-phase modulation; orthogonal polarized pulses; orthogonal-polarized control pulses; polarization-maintaining fiber; pulse retiming; walk-off free modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202274
