A flexible, pulsewidth tunable, 10 GHz source of transform-limited pulses for high bit rate OTDM/WDM transmission systems

Author

Guy, M.J. ; Chernikov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Kashyap, R.

Author_Institution

Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1995

fDate

34838

Firstpage

42522

Lastpage

42524

Abstract

Future high bit-rate communications systems are likely to rely on the multiplexing of many channels, either in the time or frequency domain. We describe a simple and flexible 10 GHz source of transform-limited pulses of selectable duration in the range 20 ps-200 fs suitable for optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) at rates approaching 1 Tbit/s. This source can also be adapted to produce several synchronised 10 GHz channels with selectable pulse durations at different wavelengths suitable for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) applications

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre networks; pulse generators; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Tbit/s; 10 GHz; 20 ps to 200 fs; OTDM/WDM transmission systems; channels multiplexing; frequency domain; high bit rate communications systems; optical time division multiplexing; pulsewidth tunable source; selectable pulse durations; time domain; transform-limited pulses; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelengths;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Towards Terabit Transmission, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic:19950717

Filename

405086