Wideband and flat supercontinuum generation from optical fibers and its applications

Author

Kikuchi, K.

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

17

Abstract

Recent progress in supercontinuum (SC) generation from optical fibers in the 1550 nm band has exploited its attractive applications to a spectral-slicing pulse source used in WDM systems and an ultra-short pulse source used in OTDM systems. We discuss how wideband and flat SC can be generated from optical fibers, and then describe applications of such SC to optical communication systems.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1550 nm; OTDM system; WDM systems; applications; dispersion-flattened fiber; flat supercontinuum generation; optical communication systems; optical fibers; spectral-slicing pulse source; ultra-short pulse source; wideband supercontinuum generation; Autocorrelation; Chirp; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Space vector pulse width modulation; Supercontinuum generation; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.811591

Filename

811591