Tunable N-fold multicasting and pulsewidth of 40 Gb/s channels by variable periodic slicing of a supercontinuum

Author

Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Nuccio, Scott R. ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate tunable-fold multicasting of 40 Gb/s RZ-OOK channels via supercontinuum slicing by a polarization based tunable periodic filter. 2-, 4-, and 8-fold multicasting are achieved with average power penalties of 0.1, 0.26, 0.44 dB, respectively, at a BER of 10^-9.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; laser tuning; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; optical fibre polarisation; supercontinuum generation; N-fold multicast tuning; RZ-OOK channel; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; fiber optic communication; on-off keying; optical fibre polarization; short-pulse laser; supercontinuum generation; tunable periodic filter; Band pass filters; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Space vector pulse width modulation; Supercontinuum generation; Tunable circuits and devices; (060.2330) Fiber optic communications; (070.4340) Nonlinear optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225716