Ultrawide-band pulse generation based on cross phase modulation in fibers

Author

Velanas, Pantelis ; Bogris, Adonis ; Argyris, Apostolos ; Syvridis, Dimitris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun., Nat. & Kapodestrian Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2008

fDate

14-16 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

91

Abstract

An ultrawide-band impulse signal´s generator based on the cross-phase modulation effect (XPM) in optical fibers performed by optical filtering is experimentally demonstated. Electrical monocycle pulses have be obtained at the output of the photodetector (PD).

Keywords

band-pass filters; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; pulse generators; ultra wideband communication; UWB impulse signal generator; XPM effect; bandpass optical filter; cross phase modulation; electrical monocycle pulses; optical fiber; photodetector; ultrawide-band pulse generation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filtering; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Phase modulation; Pulse generation; Signal generators; All optical signal processing; cross phase modulation; non linear optics; ultra-wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series, 2008

Conference_Location

Sorrento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1594-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1595-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSWT.2008.4444414

Filename

4444414