Processing Ultrafast Optical Signals in Broadband Telecom Systems by means of Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities

Author

Gallo, Katia ; Prawiharjo, Jerry ; Parmigiani, Francesca ; Almeida, Paulo ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Richardson, David J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Center, Southampton Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

226

Abstract

Quadratic optical nonlinearities offer several attractive features for the implementation of ultra-fast, low-noise and transparent telecom devices. Technological progress has dramatically increased their efficiency, driving a steady move towards practical applications. In this talk we shall discuss the use of cascaded quadratic interactions in LiNbO₃ integrated devices for pulse diagnostics, format conversion and signal regeneration in ultra-fast multi-wavelength telecom systems

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; lithium compounds; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical materials; LiNbO₃; LiNbO₃ integrated device; broadband telecom; cascaded quadratic nonlinearities; ultrafast optical signals; Signal processing; Telecommunications; Ultrafast optics; 3-R regeneration; all-optical switching; frequency-resolved optical gating; lithium niobate; nonlinear integrated optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nottingham

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0235-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0236-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2006.248379

Filename

4013775