Photonic Generation of UWB Pulses Using a Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror and Its Distribution Over a Fiber Link

Author

Huang, Tianye ; Li, Jia ; Sun, Junqiang ; Chen, Lawrence R.

Author_Institution

Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

23

Issue

17

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1255

Lastpage

1257

Abstract

A novel approach is proposed for generating ultra-wideband (UWB) doublet pulses using a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). In this scheme, a polarization controller is used to shift the NOLM transfer function so that for a fixed operating condition (pump power), we can access the nonlinear portion of the transfer function. The UWB doublet pulses are then modulated using on-off keying and transmitted over a 10-km span of standard single-mode fiber to assess system performance. Error-free transmission is achieved with a power penalty of 1.5 dB compared with the back-to-back measurement.

Keywords

microwave photonics; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical links; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical transfer function; optical transmitters; radio-over-fibre; ultra wideband communication; error-free optical transmission; fiber link; nonlinear optical loop mirror; on-off keying; optical modulation; optical transfer function; photonic UWB pulse generation; polarization controller; pump power; size 10 km; standard single-mode fiber-to-assess system; ultrawideband doublet pulses; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Photonics; Microwave photonics; nonlinear optics; optical pulse shaping; ultra-wideband (UWB) technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2158995

Filename

5871681