40-GHz pulse train generation using soliton compression of a Mach-Zehnder modulator output
Abstract
We demonstrate 40-GHz soliton pulse train generation using nonlinear compression of the output of a Mach-Zehnder modulator. This source generates transform-limited pulses at twice the RF drive frequency, requires less than V(sub pi) drive level, is tunable in wavelength (over the entire EDFA bandwidth), and is tunable in repetition rate.
- Publication:
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IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1109/68.363358
- Bibcode:
- 1995IPTL....7..114S
- Keywords:
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- Harmonic Generations;
- Light Modulation;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Pulses;
- Solitary Waves;
- Bandwidth;
- Light Transmission;
- Tuning;
- Optics