Timing Jitter Tolerant All-Optical TDM Demultiplexing Using a Saw-Tooth Pulse Shaper

Author

Parmigiani, Francesca ; Ng, Trina T. ; Ibsen, Morten ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Richardson, David J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton

Volume

20

Issue

23

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1992

Lastpage

1994

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the generation of picosecond saw-tooth optical pulses, which are shaped using a fiber Bragg grating to provide timing jitter tolerant optical time-division multiplexing data demultiplexing in a scheme based on cross-phase modulation in an optical fiber, with subsequent offset filtering. A power improvement of more than 5 dB is obtained compared to demultiplexing with more conventional shapes, such as Gaussian, with a similar pulsewidth.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; demultiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; phase modulation; time division multiplexing; timing jitter; FBG; all-optical TDM demultiplexing; cross-phase modulation; demultiplexing; fiber Bragg grating; offset filtering; optical fiber; optical time division multiplexing; picosecond optical pulse generation; saw-tooth pulse shaper; timing jitter; Cross-phase modulation (XPM); demultiplexing; fiber Bragg grating (FBG); highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF); optical pulse shaping; optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM); triangular shape;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.2005784

Filename

4663537