• DocumentCode
    2985354
  • Title

    Pulse retiming using cross-phase modulation by orthogonal polarized pulses in an anomalous-dispersion polarization-maintaining fiber

  • Author

    Abedin, Kazi S. ; Kubota, Fumito

  • Author_Institution
    National Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    1784
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate retiming of pulses by orthogonal-polarized control pulses co-propagating in an anomalous-dispersion polarization-maintaining fiber. Through walk-off free cross-phase modulation in 500-m long fiber, 2.2-ps pulses at 10-GHz-rate are retime by as much as ±2 ps.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; phase modulation; -2 to 2 ps; 10 GHz; 2.2 ps; 500 m; anomalous-dispersion fiber; cross-phase modulation; orthogonal polarized pulses; orthogonal-polarized control pulses; polarization-maintaining fiber; pulse retiming; walk-off free modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Phase modulation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.202274
  • Filename
    1573340