Advanced optical processing systems combining linear pulse shapers and fibre-based nonlinear switches

Author

Petropoulos, P. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Ng, T.T. ; Ibsen, M. ; Richardson, D.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

fYear

2008

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The combination of linear pulse shaping, achieved using superstructured fibre Bragg gratings, and fibre-based nonlinear switching facilitates advanced all-optical processing of signals. Some applications include suppression of timing jitter, and demultiplexing based on frequency-shifting of OTDM signals.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; demultiplexing; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical information processing; optical pulse shaping; optical switches; time division multiplexing; timing jitter; OTDM signals; all-optical processing systems; demultiplexing; fibre-based nonlinear switches; frequency shifting; linear pulse shapers; superstructured fibre Bragg gratings; timing jitter suppression; Bragg gratings; Demultiplexing; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Optical pulse shaping; Optical switches; Pulse shaping methods; Signal processing; Timing jitter; Kerr nonlinearities; fibre Bragg gratings; optical communications; optical processing; pulse shaping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2008. PS 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4326-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-8855-2228-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2008.4804185

Filename

4804185