• DocumentCode
    3576486
  • Title

    Generation of 10-GHz similariton pulses using erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for application to multiwavelength sources

  • Author

    Ozeki, Yasuyuki ; Takushima, Yuichi ; Taira, Kenji ; Kikuchi, Kazuro

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a 10-GHz ´similariton´ source using a 1.2 km-long erbium-doped fiber amplifier. The spectrum-sliced pulse of the broadband similariton exhibits excellent noise performance owing to the flat spectrum.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; erbium; light sources; microwave photonics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical noise; optical pulse generation; spectral line broadening; 1.2 km; 10 GHz; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; multiwavelength sources; similariton pulses; spectrum-sliced pulse;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1361447