All-optical storage of a picosecond-pulse packet using parametric amplification

Glenn D. Bartolini; Darwin K. Serkland; Prem Kumar; William L. Kath

doi:10.1109/68.593386

All-optical storage of a picosecond-pulse packet using parametric amplification

Glenn D. Bartolini^*, Darwin K. Serkland, Prem Kumar, William L. Kath

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Abstract

We demonstrate all-optical storage of a picosecond-pulse packet of ones and zeros in a fiber buffer in which loss is compensated by parametric amplification. An all-fiber phase-sensitive parametric amplifier, which exploits a nonlinear Sagnac loop made of standard polarization-maintaining fiber to provide gain, regenerates the stored pulses on each round-trip. Storage for periods of time up to 1 ms has been observed. Data packets of 10's of kilobits could be stored in this device with use of a higher repetition-rate pump source.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1020-1022
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	9
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.593386
State	Published - Jul 1997

Funding

Manuscript received December 27, 1996; revised April 4, 1997. This work was supported in part by the DARPA under the MURI program. The authors are with McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3118 USA. Publisher Item Identifier S 1041-1135(97)05024-6.

Keywords

Nonlinear optics
Optical cache memory
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical fiber communications
Optical networks
Optical storage buffers
Parametric amplifiers
Time-division multiplexing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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