Pulse-width tunable, self-frequency conversion of short optical pulses over 200 nm based on supercontinuum generation

Author

Morioka, Kazuyuki ; Mori, Kazuo ; Kawanishi, Satoki ; Saruwatari, M.

Author_Institution

NTT Opt. Network Syst. Lab., Kanagawa

Volume

30

Issue

23

fYear

1994

fDate

11/10/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1960

Lastpage

1962

Abstract

Self-frequency conversion of ultrashort optical pulses into arbitrary multiwavelength components without the use of a pump is achieved by using supercontinuum generation. Frequency conversion of a randomly-modulated 1.535-1.560 μm, 2.5 ps pulse stream at 6.3 Gbit/s into 1.41-1.64 μm, 0.29-1.0 ps pulse streams is demonstrated for the first time. The method features ultrawide tunability of over 200 nm, and multiwavelength, pulsewidth-tunable output for flexible WDM distribution networks

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; 0.29 to 1.0 ps; 1.44 to 1.64 mum; 1.535 to 1.560 mum; 2.5 ps; 6.3 Gbit/s; arbitrary multiwavelength components; flexible WDM distribution networks; multiwavelength; ps pulse streams; pulse stream; pulse-width tunable; pulsewidth-tunable output; randomly-modulated; self-frequency conversion; short optical pulses; supercontinuum generation; ultrashort optical pulses; ultrawide tunability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19941331

Filename

335648