Applications of superstructured fibre Bragg gratings in all-optical signal processing

Author

Parmigiani, Francesca ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Ng, Trina T. ; Ibsen, Morten ; Richardson, David J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We review our recent progress in the area of reshaping of short optical pulses in both time and frequency domain produced using superstructured fibre Bragg gratings (SSFBGs). We mainly focus our discussion on the saw-tooth pulse shape as an interesting example of the powerful combination of nonlinear optical switches and tailored optical pulses.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; multiplexing; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical pulse shaping; optical switches; SSFBG; all-optical signal processing; nonlinear optical switches; saw-tooth pulse shape; short optical pulse reshaping; superstructured fibre Bragg gratings; tailored optical pulse; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; Signal processing; cross-phase modulation; fibre Bragg gratings; optical signal processing; pulse shaping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185314

Filename

5185314