105-ns Continuously Tunable Delay of 10-Gb/s Optical Signal

Author

Alic, N. ; Windmiller, J.R. ; Coles, J.B. ; Moro, S. ; Myslivets, E. ; Saperstein, R.E. ; Boggio, J. M Chavez ; Bres, C.-S. ; Radic, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Volume

20

Issue

13

fYear

2008

fDate

7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1187

Lastpage

1189

Abstract

A continuously tunable optical delay line providing over 105 ns of 10-Gb/s optical channel is reported using a two-pump parametric process in a nonlinear optical fiber. Performance limits are measured and compared with recently reported all-optical delay results. The figure of merit defined by the delay-bandwidth product is 1055.

Keywords

optical delay lines; optical fibre communication; optical parametric amplifiers; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; delay-bandwidth product; nonlinear optical fiber; optical channel; optical delay line; time 105 ns; two-pump parametric process; Delay lines; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Stimulated emission; Dispersion; fiber-optic communications; optical delay; parametric amplifiers; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.925499

Filename

4544828