Title :
Optical comb generator using pulse compression in ultra-long semiconductor amplifiers
Author :
Bornholdt, C. ; Slovak, J. ; Sartorius, B. ; Schlak, M. ; Schmidt, Ch.
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
A novel pulse compression technique using an ultra-long semiconductor optical amplifier is presented. High quality 2 ps pulses were generated out of 40 GHz sinusoidal signal of a PhaseCOMB-laser enabling several applications for optical signal processing.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical information processing; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 2 ps; 40 GHz; DWDM systems; PhaseCOMB-laser; optical comb generator; optical signal processing; picosecond pulse generation; pulse compression; sinusoidal signal; ultralong semiconductor amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
