DocumentCode
1253100
Title
Nonlinear fibre-optic receiver for ultrashort pulse code division multiple access communications
Author
Sardesai, Harshad P ; Weiner, Andrew M.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Volume
33
Issue
7
fYear
1997
fDate
3/27/1997 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
610
Lastpage
611
Abstract
The authors present experimental results on a nonlinear optical receiver For ultrashort pulse code division multiple access communications which uses nonlinear frequency shift effects in optical fibres to perform intensity discrimination with femtosecond response times. The receiver exhibits a contrast ratio of nearly 1000 for received pulse energies of ~1 pJ
Keywords
code division multiple access; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; contrast ratio; femtosecond response times; intensity discrimination; multiple access communications; nonlinear fibre-optic receiver; nonlinear frequency shift effects; optical fibres; pulse code division; received pulse energies;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19970416
Filename
591394
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