High-speed pulse-train generation using single-mode-fibre recirculating delay lines
Abstract
A simple technique is described, whereby the delay properties of a series of two single-mode-fiber recirculating delay lines were used to generate a sequence of uniform, high-speed pulse trains. A single, short input was used to generate a sequence of 1.25 Gbit/s pulse trains that were uniform to better than + or - 0.3 dB.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- September 1983
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1983ElL....19..756N
- Keywords:
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- Delay Lines;
- Fiber Optics;
- Picosecond Pulses;
- Propagation Modes;
- Pulse Generators;
- High Speed;
- Loops;
- Optical Coupling;
- Photodiodes;
- Pulse Rate;
- Transit Time;
- Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers