Ultra-Wideband Pulse Train Generation Based on Turbo-Switch Structures

Author

Zhang, Weiwei ; Sun, Junqiang ; Wang, Jian ; Cheng, Cheng ; Zhang, Xinliang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Optoelectron. Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

Volume

21

Issue

5

fYear

2009

fDate

3/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

273

Abstract

A simple configuration is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to generate ultra-wideband (UWB) monocycle pulses based on a turbo-switch structure which consists of two reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOAs). The first RSOA generates an inversed pulse train of the injected signal through the cross-gain modulation, while the second RSOA introduces an overshoot. The overshoot can be enhanced by properly adjusting the currents applied to both of the two RSOAs, therefore, the UWB monocycle pulse train is successfully obtained. By cascading turbo-switches, the polarity-inversed UWB monocycle pairs and the UWB doublet pulse train are numerically realized.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical switches; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ultra wideband communication; RSOA; UWB doublet pulse train; cross-gain modulation; monocycle pulses; polarity-inversed pulse train; reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal injection; turbo-switch structures; ultra-wideband pulse train generation; Doublet pulse; monocycle pulse; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); turbo-switch; ultra-wideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.2010628

Filename

4738365