Title :
40-Fold 4-channel sub-picosecond pulse compression by Raman amplification and self-phase modulation
Author :
Hung Nguyen Tan ; Quang Nguyen-The ; Matsuura, Motoharu ; Kishi, Naoto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu, Japan
Abstract :
We realize 40-fold simultaneous compression for 4 WDM clock/data pulses to 500fs by distributed Raman amplifier and SPM-based compressor. BER measurements of compressed pulses show small penalties of 0.4dB in which SPM offers penalty-free operation.
Keywords :
error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical pulse compression; self-phase modulation; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 4-channel subpicosecond pulse compression; BER; Raman amplification; SPM-based compressor; WDM; distributed Raman amplifier; self-phase modulation; Clocks; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical pulse compression; Optical solitons; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
