Time-lens based optical packet pulse compression and retiming
Publication: Research - peer-review › Conference article – Annual report year: 2010
This paper presents a new optical circuit that performs both pulse compression and frame synchronization and retiming. Our design aims at directly multiplexing several 10G Ethernet data packets (frames) to a high-speed OTDM link. This scheme is optically transparent and does not require clock recovery, resulting in a potentially very efficient solution. The scheme uses a time-lens, implemented through a sinusoidally driven optical phase modulation, combined with a linear dispersion element. As time-lenses are also used for pulse compression, we design the circuit also to perform pulse compression, as well. The overall design is: (1) Pulses are converted from NRZ to RZ; (2) pulses are synchronized, retimed and further compressed at the specially designed time-lens; and (3) with adequate optical delays, frames from different input interfaces are added, with a simple optical coupler, completing the OTDM signal generation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the design by laboratory experiments.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Volume | 7728 |
| Pages | 77280T |
| ISSN | 0277-786X |
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| State | Published |
Conference
| Conference | Photonics Europe : Nonlinear Optics and Applications IV |
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| City | Brussels, Belgium |
| Period | 01-01-10 → … |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 0 |
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Keywords
- pulse compression, OTDM, frame retiming, 10G Ethernet, time-lens, frame synchronization
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