All-optical signal regeneration by temporal slicing of nonlinearly flattened optical waveform

Author

Boscolo, Sonia ; Turitsyn, Sergei K.

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1235

Lastpage

1237

Abstract

A novel all-optical time domain regeneration technique using nonlinear pulse broadening and flattening in normal dispersion fiber and subsequent temporal slicing by an amplitude modulator (or a device performing a similar function) is proposed. Substantial suppression of the timing jitter of jitter-degraded optical signals is demonstrated using the proposed approach.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical pulse shaping; optical repeaters; spectral line broadening; timing jitter; Kerr nonlinearity; all-optical signal regeneration; amplitude modulator; jitter-degraded optical signals; long-distance signal transmission; nonlinear pulse broadening; nonlinearly flattened optical waveform; normal dispersion fiber; temporal optical waveform slicing; terrestrial photonic networks; time domain regeneration; timing jitter suppression; ultrahigh-speed operation; Amplitude modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber devices; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Repeaters; Timing jitter; All-optical signal regeneration; nonlinear temporal pulse broadening and flattening; optical temporal gating/slicing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.846577

Filename

1432787