• DocumentCode
    670842
  • Title

    Self-phase-modulation based low-noise, cavity-less short pulse source for photonic-assisted ADC

  • Author

    Zhi Tong ; Lan Liu ; Wiberg, Andreas O. J. ; Alic, Nikola ; Radic, Stojan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    16-20 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a high fidelity picosecond optical pulse source based on a cavity-less architecture. After nonlinear regeneration, low-noise pulse trains leading to 8.0 ENOBs at 3.6-GHz sampling rate was achieved in optical sampling.
  • Keywords
    analogue-digital conversion; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; phase modulation; cavity-less short pulse source; frequency 3.6 GHz; high fidelity picosecond optical pulse source; low-noise pulse trains; nonlinear regeneration; photonic-assisted ADC; self-phase-modulation based low-noise; Noise; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Repeaters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Amsterdam
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6706093