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
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