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All-optical modulation and demultiplexing systems with significant timing jitter tolerance through incorporation of pulse-shaping fiber Bragg gratings

All-optical modulation and demultiplexing systems with significant timing jitter tolerance through incorporation of pulse-shaping fiber Bragg gratings
All-optical modulation and demultiplexing systems with significant timing jitter tolerance through incorporation of pulse-shaping fiber Bragg gratings
In this letter, we demonstrate the use of a superstructured fiber Bragg grating to preshape optical pulses to obtain optimal operation of nonlinear all-optical switches. Specifically, we demonstrate the conversion of 2.5 ps soliton pulses into 20 ps rectangular pulses at the input to both fiber and semiconductor optical amplifier-based switches, and show that rectangular switching windows can be achieved thereby providing a 5-10-fold reduction in timing jitter sensitivity. Error free penalty free optical time-division-multiplexing switching was readily achieved over a ±7 ps timing mismatch range for the square pulse driven fiber nonlinear optical loop mirror switch versus a ±1 ps range for the switch driven directly with 2.5 ps laser pulses.
1041-1135
203-205
Lee, J.H.
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Teh, P.C.
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Petropoulos, P.
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Ibsen, M.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Ibsen, M.
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Lee, J.H., Teh, P.C., Petropoulos, P., Ibsen, M. and Richardson, D.J. (2002) All-optical modulation and demultiplexing systems with significant timing jitter tolerance through incorporation of pulse-shaping fiber Bragg gratings. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 14 (2), 203-205. (doi:10.1109/68.980517).

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In this letter, we demonstrate the use of a superstructured fiber Bragg grating to preshape optical pulses to obtain optimal operation of nonlinear all-optical switches. Specifically, we demonstrate the conversion of 2.5 ps soliton pulses into 20 ps rectangular pulses at the input to both fiber and semiconductor optical amplifier-based switches, and show that rectangular switching windows can be achieved thereby providing a 5-10-fold reduction in timing jitter sensitivity. Error free penalty free optical time-division-multiplexing switching was readily achieved over a ±7 ps timing mismatch range for the square pulse driven fiber nonlinear optical loop mirror switch versus a ±1 ps range for the switch driven directly with 2.5 ps laser pulses.

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Published date: 2002
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 13791
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/13791
ISSN: 1041-1135
PURE UUID: f6c06a25-100c-4181-8012-c091c86e63a2
ORCID for P. Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034
ORCID for D.J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 03 Jan 2005
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:58

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Author: J.H. Lee
Author: P.C. Teh
Author: P. Petropoulos ORCID iD
Author: M. Ibsen
Author: D.J. Richardson ORCID iD

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