High-power widely tunable 40-GHz pulse source for 160-gb/s OTDM systems based on nonlinear fiber effects

Author

Ciaramella, E. ; Contestabile, G. ; D´Errico, A. ; Loiacono, C. ; Presi, M.

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna Univ., Pisa, Italy

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

753

Lastpage

755

Abstract

We numerically analyze and experimentally demonstrate an innovative and simple 40-GHz source for 160-Gb/s optical time-division multiplexing. The source is based on nonlinear evolution of a sine-modulated lightwave in a Raman-pumped fiber. Proper nonlinear propagation produces the simultaneous soliton generation and compression. High-power soliton-like pulses are obtained with <1-ps pulsewidth. The source can be tuned over 20 nm and it has more than 100-mW average output power.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical solitons; optical tuning; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; 160-Gb/s OTDM systems; 40 GHz; Raman-pumped fiber; high-power pulse source; high-power soliton-like pulses; nonlinear fiber effects; nonlinear propagation; optical communications; optical time-division multiplexing; sine-modulated lightwave; soliton compression; soliton generation; widely tunable pulse source; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Optical transmitters; Pulse compression methods; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.823772

Filename

1269784