320-Gb/s eye diagram measurement by optical sampling system using a passively mode-locked fiber laser

Author

Yamada, Nobuhide ; Banjo, Nobukazu ; Ohta, Hiroshi ; Nogiwa, Seiji ; Yanagisawa, Yoshiki

Author_Institution

ANDO Electr. Co. Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

531

Lastpage

533

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have successfully observed the eye diagram of a 320-Gb/s optical signal with a time resolution of 700 fs and timing jitter of 80 fs. The sampling pulse was generated stably from a passively mode-locked fiber laser (MLFL). Because the MLFL could directly generate a 480-fs sampling pulse, we did not have to use any pulse-compression techniques. Furthermore, the MLFL had a two-stage delay line for changing the repetition rate of the sampling pulse. This system can be used to observe and evaluate the quality of high-bit-rate optical signals.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; laser variables measurement; sampling methods; timing jitter; 320 Gbit/s; 480 fs; eye diagram measurement; high-bit-rate optical signals; optical sampling system; passively mode-locked fiber laser; repetition-rate-controllable stable MLFL; sampling pulse; time resolution; timing jitter; two-stage delay line; Delay lines; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Sampling methods; Signal analysis; Signal resolution; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036536

Filename

1036536