Title :
Evaluation of dispersive waves in soliton pulses generated from a Mach-Zehnder modulator and a single mode fiber
Author :
Toda, Hiroyuki ; Yamaguchi, Naoki ; Shiozaki, Toru ; Kodama, Yuji ; Hasegawa, Akira
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We evaluated dispersive wave energy included in a soliton pulse generated from a Mach-Zehnder modulator and a single mode fiber. When pulse repetition is 10 GHz, the minimum dispersive wave energy is only 0.23% when the pulse width is 23 ps, and 3% even when the pulse width is 13 ps
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; 13 ps; 23 ps; Mach-Zehnder modulator; dispersive wave energy; dispersive waves; minimum dispersive wave energy; optical fibre communication; pulse repetition; pulse width; single mode fiber; soliton pulse generation; Chirp; Dispersion; Frequency; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
84-89900-14-0
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732643
