Title :
Design and System Demonstration of a Tunable Slow-Light Delay Line Based on Fiber Parametric Process
Author :
Yi, Lilin ; Hu, Weisheng ; Su, Yikai ; Gao, Mingyi ; Leng, Lufeng
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.
Abstract :
We design a tunable slow-light delay line based on fiber-optic parametric process by shaping the gain bandwidth, with its operating wavelength in the present telecommunication window. We derive an analytical expression for the time delay and perform simulations for the delay lines made of dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) and nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber, respectively. We also experimentally demonstrate the system performance of slow light by propagating 10-Gb/s return-to-zero data packets through such a tunable delay line based on DSF
Keywords :
delays; nonlinear optics; optical delay lines; optical design techniques; optical fibre dispersion; 10 Gbit/s; dispersion-shifted fiber; fiber parametric process; gain bandwidth shaping; return-to-zero data packets; slow-light delay line; telecommunication window; time delay; tunable delay line; Delay effects; Delay lines; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Slow light; System performance; Delay line; dispersion; nonlinear; parametric process; slow light;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.887192
