Title :
Fibre optical wavelength-converter employing cross-phase modulation and low-threshold non-adiabatic Raman compression
Author :
Chestnut, D.A. ; Taylor, J.R.
Author_Institution :
Femtosecond Opt. Group, Imperial Coll. London, UK
fDate :
7/24/2003 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Cross-phase modulation in highly nonlinear fibre and non-adiabatic Raman compression in dispersion-shifted fibre was employed to switch 20 GHz, 6 ps pulses to 3 ps solitons. Non-adiabatic compression has a low threshold and dispersive waves generated from non-adiabaticity can be removed using a nonlinear optical loop mirror.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical solitons; optical wavelength conversion; 20 GHz; 3 ps; 6 ps; cross-phase modulation; dispersion-shifted fibre; fibre optical wavelength-converter; highly nonlinear fibre; low-threshold Raman compression; nonadiabatic Raman compression; nonlinear optical loop mirror; solitons;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20030736
