Design Considerations for Polarization-Independent All-Optical Retiming Based on Cross-Phase Modulation and Spectral Slicing

Author

Ito, Chris ; Cartledge, John C.

Author_Institution

Queen´´s Univ., Kingston

Volume

20

Issue

6

fYear

2008

fDate

3/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

425

Lastpage

427

Abstract

Polarization-independent all-optical retiming is demonstrated experimentally at 10 Gb/s using a self-pulsating distributed feedback laser, cross-phase modulation in a highly nonlinear fiber, and spectral slicing. With careful attention to key design parameters, excellent performance is achieved without additional complexity compared to a conventional polarization-dependent implementation.

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; timing; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; nonlinear fiber; polarization-independent all-optical retiming; self-pulsating distributed feedback laser; spectral slicing; Clocks; Distributed feedback devices; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pumping; All-optical retiming; cross-phase modulation (XPM); highly nonlinear optical fiber; optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.916945

Filename

4455663