Title :
RZ-to-NRZ and NRZ-to-PRZ format conversions using a photonic crystal fiber based Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Author :
Du, Jiangbing ; Dai, Yongheng ; Lei, Gordon K P ; Wei, Huifeng ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
We have fabricated a photonic crystal fiber based Mach-Zehnder interferometer and demonstrated its use in both RZ-to-NRZ and NRZ-to-PRZ pulse format conversions for 10-Gb/s OOK signals. The PCF length is only ~165 cm.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; holey fibres; optical fibre networks; photonic crystals; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; NRZ-to-PRZ pulse format conversions; OOK signals; RZ-to-NRZ pulse format conversions; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; photonic crystal fiber; Delay; High speed optical techniques; Interference; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Photonic crystal fibers; WDM networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
