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.

Volume

18

Issue

24

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2575

Lastpage

2577

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.887192

Filename

4016122