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All-optical pulse reshaping and retiming systems incorporating pulse shaping fiber Bragg grating

All-optical pulse reshaping and retiming systems incorporating pulse shaping fiber Bragg grating
All-optical pulse reshaping and retiming systems incorporating pulse shaping fiber Bragg grating
This paper demonstrates two optical pulse retiming and reshaping systems incorporating superstructured fiber Bragg gratings (SSFBGs) as pulse shaping elements. A rectangular switching window is implemented to avoid conversion of the timing jitter on the original data pulses into pulse amplitude noise at the output of a nonlinear optical switch. In a first configuration, the rectangular pulse generator is used at the (low power) data input to a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) to perform retiming of an incident noisy data signal using a clean local clock signal to control the switch. In a second configuration, the authors further amplify the data signal and use it to switch a (low power) clean local clock signal. The S-shaped nonlinear characteristic of the NOLM results in this instance in a reduction of both timing and amplitude jitter on the data signal. The underlying technologies required for the implementation of this technique are such that an upgrade of the scheme for the regeneration of ultrahigh bit rate signals at data rates in excess of 320 Gb/s should be achievable.
0733-8724
357-364
Parmigiani, F.
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Petropoulos, P.
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Ibsen, M.
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Richardson, D.J.
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Parmigiani, F., Petropoulos, P., Ibsen, M. and Richardson, D.J. (2006) All-optical pulse reshaping and retiming systems incorporating pulse shaping fiber Bragg grating. IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 24 (1), 357-364. (doi:10.1109/JLT.2005.860157).

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This paper demonstrates two optical pulse retiming and reshaping systems incorporating superstructured fiber Bragg gratings (SSFBGs) as pulse shaping elements. A rectangular switching window is implemented to avoid conversion of the timing jitter on the original data pulses into pulse amplitude noise at the output of a nonlinear optical switch. In a first configuration, the rectangular pulse generator is used at the (low power) data input to a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) to perform retiming of an incident noisy data signal using a clean local clock signal to control the switch. In a second configuration, the authors further amplify the data signal and use it to switch a (low power) clean local clock signal. The S-shaped nonlinear characteristic of the NOLM results in this instance in a reduction of both timing and amplitude jitter on the data signal. The underlying technologies required for the implementation of this technique are such that an upgrade of the scheme for the regeneration of ultrahigh bit rate signals at data rates in excess of 320 Gb/s should be achievable.

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Published date: 2006
Additional Information: see also errata: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2006.878488
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 38448
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/38448
ISSN: 0733-8724
PURE UUID: 7b7270ac-69a1-4f26-bbf7-2dbe87487976
ORCID for F. Parmigiani: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-2829
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: 08 Jun 2006
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:58

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Author: F. Parmigiani ORCID iD
Author: P. Petropoulos ORCID iD
Author: M. Ibsen
Author: D.J. Richardson ORCID iD

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