Tunable wavelength conversion and back-conversion through the spectral evolution of higher-order solitons

Author

Lee, K.S. ; Gross, M.C. ; Ralph, S.E. ; Buck, J.A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

362

Abstract

This study describes a wavelength conversion method that exploits the spectral separation and reassembly that occurs during the evolution of N=2 or N=3 solitons. This method involves breaking the temporal degeneracy of the sub-pulses by introducing one of three perturbation type at the soliton period midpoint. These include loss elements, bandpass filters, or dispersion steps.

Keywords

band-pass filters; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; back-conversion; bandpass filters; dispersion steps; higher-order solitons; loss elements; soliton period midpoint; spectral evolution; spectral reassembly; spectral separation; temporal degeneracy; tunable wavelength conversion; Autocorrelation; Band pass filters; Dispersion; Drives; Frequency; Laser tuning; Pulse measurements; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251799

Filename

1251799