Nonlinear Pulse Reshaping With Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber for OCDMA Receivers

Author

Fsaifes, Ihsan ; Cordette, Steevy ; Tonello, Alessandro ; Couderc, Vincent ; Lepers, Catherine ; Ware, Cédric ; Leproux, Philippe ; Buy-Lesvigne, Christelle

Author_Institution

Xlim, Univ. de Limoges, Limoges, France

Volume

22

Issue

18

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1367

Lastpage

1369

Abstract

We combine an erbium-doped fiber amplifier with a short segment of highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber to generate a nonlinear transfer function suitable for optical transmission systems based on optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA). Such a functional element based on spectral broadening followed by an off-center narrow optical filtering provides an effective suppression of spurious signals such as multiple-access interferences in OCDMA receivers and can reduce the pulses amplitude jitter.

Keywords

code division multiplexing; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse shaping; optical receivers; photonic crystals; OCDMA receivers; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber; nonlinear pulse reshaping; nonlinear transfer function; optical code-division multiple-access; optical transmission systems; pulses amplitude jitter; Birefringence; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Photonic crystal fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Transfer functions; Microstructured fibers; optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA); optical thresholding;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2010.2057415

Filename

5508358