Title :
200 fs soliton pulse generation at 10 GHz through nonlinear compression of transform-limited pulses from an electroabsorption modulator
Author :
Guy, M.J. ; Chernikov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Kashyap, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
fDate :
4/27/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Nonlinear adiabatic compression of transform-limited ~5 ps pulses generated by a chirp-compensated electroabsorption modulator operating at 10 GHz is demonstrated using dispersion-decreasing fibre. 200 fs soliton pulses are generated with no pedestal component
Keywords :
electroabsorption; optical fibre communication; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; photonic switching systems; 10 GHz; 200 fs; adiabatic compression; chirp-compensated modulator; dispersion-decreasing fibre; electroabsorption modulator; nonlinear compression; soliton pulse generation; transform-limited pulses;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19950502
