@article{f334f5b19e1a433f927b2be67524ecb4,
title = "Experimental demonstration of optical retiming using temporal soliton molecules",
abstract = "We experimentally demonstrate optical retiming of a 10.7 Gb/s data stream utilizing the property of bound soliton pairs (or soliton molecules) to relax to an equilibrium temporal separation after propagation through a nonlinear dispersion alternating fiber span. Pulses offset up to 16 ps from bit center are successfully retimed. The results of the experiment are in agreement with numerical simulations. An enhanced version of this retiming scheme is analyzed using numerical simulations.",
keywords = "Nonlinear fiber optics, optical retiming, temporal solitons",
author = "Stanley Johnson and Stanley Pau and Franko K{\"u}ppers",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received July 06, 2011; revised September 15, 2011, September 26, 2011; accepted October 03, 2011. Date of publication October 13, 2011; date of current version November 23, 2011. This work was supported in part by the Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research MURI Program. Funding Information: The authors acknowledge funding from the Arizona Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). S. Johnson would like to thank A. George for helpful discussions on the experimental setup and G. Myhre for comments on the manuscript.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/JLT.2011.2171320",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "3493--3499",
journal = "Journal of Lightwave Technology",
issn = "0733-8724",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "23",
}