All-optical pulse regeneration in an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer with Faraday mirror polarization control

Author

Savage, S.J. ; Robinson, Brian S. ; Hamilton, S.A. ; Ippen, Erich P

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

317

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present a folded ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (FUNI) optical switch that uses Faraday rotation to achieve acoustic and polarization stabilization. We experimentally demonstrate FUNI operation for 3R all-optical regeneration with a wide switching window and a low BER power penalty.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; mirrors; optical beam splitters; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical polarisers; optical repeaters; optical switches; 3R all-optical regeneration; Faraday mirror polarization control; acoustic stabilization; all-optical pulse regeneration; dispersion shifted fiber; high bit rate optical TDM; low BER power penalty; low-birefringence; passive polarization stabilization; polarization beam splitter; polarization controller; transform limited ps´pulses; ultrafast nonlinear Interferometer; wide switching window; Mirrors; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical network units; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Polarization; Switches; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947855

Filename

947855