• DocumentCode
    1696936
  • Title

    Ultra-fast intensity modulation via Raman gain for all-optical processing

  • Author

    Burdge, Geoff ; Alam, Shaif-ul ; Grudinin, Anatoly ; Khrushchev, Igor ; Durkin, Michael ; Ibsen, Morten ; White, Ian

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. for Phys. Sci., College Park, MD, USA
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    61
  • Abstract
    An all-optical, ultra-fast, polarization insensitive broadband intensity modulator using the Raman effect has produced 10 Gb/s (capable of >100 Gb/s) selective pulse erasure. In addition to header erasure this flexible, all-optical technique can shape pulses and create dark pulses
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; 10 Gbit/s; 100 Gbit/s; Raman effect; Raman gain; all-optical processing; all-optical ultra-fast polarization insensitive broadband intensity modulator; dark pulses; header erasure; optical communications equipment; optical pulse shaping; selective pulse erasure; ultra-fast intensity modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-85296-697-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp:19971612
  • Filename
    632779