Towards an all-optical regenerator

Author

Shepard, S.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

808

Abstract

Analysis of the effects of loss and gain saturation in the presence of mode coupling reveals nonlinear behavior (clamping) even at optical intensities much smaller than the media saturation intensities. This suggests the possibility of an all-optical pulse regenerator (essentially, an optical A/D converter) that is far simpler than other proposed schemes. The dynamic response of such a device demonstrates the desired clamping as well as the validity of a steady state model when the optical pulse widths are bigger than the media relaxation times

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; coupled mode analysis; dynamic response; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; optical saturation; all-optical pulse regenerator; clamping; dynamic response; gain saturation; loss saturation; media relaxation times; mode coupling; nonlinear behavior; optical A/D converter; optical pulse; Clamps; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulses; Optical saturation; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Repeaters; Steady-state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lansing, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6475-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2000.952878

Filename

952878