Yang Yanfu, Lou Caiyun, Zhou Hongbo, Wang Jiajun, Gao Yizhi
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Appl Opt. 2006 Oct 1;45(28):7524-8. doi: 10.1364/ao.45.007524.
We propose a simple and stable pulse compression scheme based on a filtering self-phase modulation broadened spectrum in a highly nonlinear fiber. It is found experimentally that under offset filtering the compressed pulse has a better quality compared with center filtering, such as a no pulse pedestal. Furthermore, numerical simulations reveal that the scheme has the potential to improve the pulse extinction ratio during compression. Finally, based on the obtained pulse train the 4 x 10 Gbits/s optical time-division multiplexing system is studied for verification of the high pulse quality. The compression scheme has the advantages of simple configuration, being pedestal-free, and having a high pulse extinction ratio.
