Title :
High sensitivity all-optical sampling for 40 Gb/s signals
Author :
Sunnerud, Heiirik ; Westlund, Mathias ; Andrekson, Peter A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg
Abstract :
High sensitivity and absence of impedance mismatching makes optical sampling techniques attractive for monitoring 40 Gb/s signals. We present theory and experiments showing 40 Gb/s eye-diagrams with 20 dB SNR at -25 dBm average signal power
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; signal sampling; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical sampling; eye-diagrams; high sensitivity sampling; signal monitoring; Detectors; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Photodiodes; Sampling methods; Signal resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215600
