All-Fibered High-Quality Stable 20- and 40-GHz Picosecond Pulse Generators for 160-Gb/s OTDM Applications

In this work, we investigate the generation of stable 20- and 40-GHz pulse trains through the nonlinear compression of an initial beat-signal in a cavity-less optical-fiber-based device. Enhanced temporal stability is achieved by generating the sinusoidal beating thanks to a commercial LiNbO 3 inten...

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Published in:IEEE photonics technology letters 2011-10, Vol.23 (20), p.1487-1489
Main Authors: El Mansouri, Ibrahim, Fatome, Julien, Finot, Christophe, Lintz, Michel, Pitois, Stéphane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fluctuations
Lasers sources
nonlinear optics in fibers
Optical fiber dispersion
Optical fiber polarization
Radio frequency
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Summary:In this work, we investigate the generation of stable 20- and 40-GHz pulse trains through the nonlinear compression of an initial beat-signal in a cavity-less optical-fiber-based device. Enhanced temporal stability is achieved by generating the sinusoidal beating thanks to a commercial LiNbO 3 intensity modulator driven by a half repetition-rate external radio-frequency (RF) clock. We also show that the residual timing jitter induced by the RF phase modulation imposed to suppress Brillouin back-scattering can be reduced by managing the cumulated dispersion of the compression line, whereas complete polarization stabilization is obtained owing to a modified setup involving a Faraday rotator mirror. Finally, a high-quality 160-Gb/s signal is generated from our low duty-cycle 40-GHz pulse source through optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM).
ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2011.2163502