Title :
Experimental demonstration of coherent coding of picosecond pulses
Author :
Cornwell, W.D. ; Wada, N. ; Kitayama, K.-I. ; Andonovic, I.
Author_Institution :
Commun. Res. Lab., Minist. of Posts & Telecommun., Tokyo, Japan
fDate :
1/22/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
To date, approaches to coherent optical coding have used fibre-based devices for the coding/decoding operation: placing practical limitations on the ultimate system throughput. Here, a photonic integrated lightwave circuit, based on the imbalanced interferometer in tandem with a modelocked laser diode, is used to demonstrate optical phase encoding/decoding of a 10 GHz pulse stream
Keywords :
code division multiple access; integrated optoelectronics; light interferometers; optical modulation; phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; 10 GHz; coherent optical coding; imbalanced interferometer; modelocked laser diode; optical CDMA; optical phase encoding; photonic integrated lightwave circuit; picosecond pulses; system throughput;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19980221
