Experimental demonstration of optical retiming using temporal soliton molecules

Stanley Johnson; Stanley Pau; Franko Küppers

doi:10.1109/JLT.2011.2171320

Experimental demonstration of optical retiming using temporal soliton molecules

Stanley Johnson
, Stanley Pau
, Franko Küppers

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6042316
Pages (from-to)	3493-3499
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	29
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2011.2171320
State	Published - 2011

Keywords

Nonlinear fiber optics
optical retiming
temporal solitons

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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