• 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