Two-Pump Parametric Optical Delays

Author

Alic, Nikola ; Windmiller, Joshua Ray ; Coles, James B. ; Radic, Stojan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

2008

Firstpage

681

Lastpage

690

Abstract

Continuously tunable optical delay lines based on parametric process in optical fibers are described theoretically and demonstrated experimentally. Performance limits are outlined and compared to alternative approaches capable of continually adjustable delay management. The current record of 105 ns tunable optical delay at 10 Gb/s is presented, with a delay-bandwidth product of 1055.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical delay lines; optical fibre communication; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; delay-bandwidth; fiber optic communications; optical fibers; parametric amplifiers; tunable optical delay; two-pump parametric optical delays; wavelength conversion; Delay lines; Electromagnetic waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical fibers; Optical recording; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Dispersion; fiber optic communications; optical delay; parametric amplifiers; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2007.915392

Filename

4538016