Rate multiplication of a 59-GHz soliton source at 1550 nm

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

doi:10.1109/50.664081

Rate multiplication of a 59-GHz soliton source at 1550 nm

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

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Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical scheme to multiply the repetition frequency of a high-rate optical pulse train by using a spectral filter to remove unwanted frequency components. A stable 58.5-GHz soliton pulse source at 1542 nm is filtered with a Fabry-Perot interferometer to achieve 117 and 175.5 GHz output pulse trains. This scheme is generally applicable to rate multiplication of mode-locked pulse trains using various types of spectral filters. All-optical rate conversion of continuous pulse trains may find applications in time division multiplexed optical networks at high bit rates, where electronic methods are cumbersome.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	670-677
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	16
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/50.664081
State	Published - Apr 1998

Keywords

Frequency domain synthesis
Frequency stability
Millimeter wave frequency conversion
Millimeter wave generation
Optical fiber devices
Optical propagation in nonlinear media
Optical pulse generation
Optical solitons

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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