DocumentCode
600557
Title
Attosecond photonics for optical communications
Author
Nejadmalayeri, A.H. ; Grein, Matthew E. ; Spector, S.J. ; Khilo, Anatol ; Peng, Michael Y. ; Sander, Michelle Y. ; Wang, Jiacheng ; Benedick, A.J. ; Sorace, C.M. ; Geis, M.W. ; Willis, M.M. ; Lennon, D.M. ; Yoon, J.U. ; Lyszczarz, T.M. ; Ippen, Erich P ;
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear
2012
fDate
4-8 March 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
Recent experiments have demonstrated that low-jitter mode locked lasers enable unprecedented high-resolution high-speed analog to digital conversion. That capability may be leveraged to bring spectral efficiency of optical transport systems to its Shannon limit.
Keywords
analogue-digital conversion; high-speed optical techniques; jitter; laser mode locking; optical communication; Shannon limit; attosecond photonics; high-resolution high-speed analog to digital conversion; low-jitter mode locked lasers; optical communications; optical transport systems; spectral efficiency; High-speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Photonics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
ISSN
pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0262-3
Type
conf
Filename
6476380
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