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Picosecond optical sampling using four-wave mixing in fibre
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In this article, an all-optical sampling system with 20 ps resolution achieved by employing four-wave mixing in a fiber is demonstrated using only semiconductor laser sources, where picosecond pulses are displayed on a microsecond time scale with a low speed receiver.Abstract:
An all-optical sampling system with 20 ps resolution realised by employing four-wave mixing in a fibre is demonstrated. Using only semiconductor laser sources, picosecond pulses are displayed on a microsecond time scale with a low speed receiver.read more
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Ultrahigh-speed optical time-division-multiplexed transmission technology based on optical signal processing
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High-performance optical-fiber-nonlinearity-based optical waveform monitoring
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Interferometric all-optical switches for ultrafast signal processing
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300-Gb/s eye-diagram measurement by optical sampling using fiber-based parametric amplification
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High-speed measurements for optical telecommunication systems
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Nonlinear Fiber Optics
TL;DR: The field of nonlinear fiber optics has advanced enough that a whole book was devoted to it as discussed by the authors, which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Russian languages, attesting to the worldwide activity in the field.
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Limitations on lightwave communications imposed by optical-fiber nonlinearities
TL;DR: In this paper, the power limitations of light-wave systems were analyzed as a function of a number of wavelength-multiplexed channels and methods for scaling these results with changes in system parameters were presented.
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The effect of four-wave mixing in fibers on optical frequency-division multiplexed systems
TL;DR: In this article, the limiting effects of four-wave mixing on optical frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are described and the theoretical and experimental results of the effects of FWM in OFDM systems are presented.
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16 Gbit/s all-optical demultiplexing using four-wave mixing
TL;DR: In this article, a purely optical demultiplexing technique for high-speed time-division multiplexed data is proposed and demonstrated using optical fiber nonlinearity induced four-wave mixing with a data signal and a probe signal located at different wavelengths.
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Optical sampling oscilloscope using nonlinear fibre loop mirror
B.P. Nelson,Nick Doran +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an optical sampling system employing the nonlinear loop mirror is described, which enables the display of picosecond pulses on millisecond time scales thus performing the function of an all optical sampling oscilloscope.