Chen Jianhua, Lou Caiyun, Huo Li, Lu Dan
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Appl Opt. 2011 May 10;50(14):1979-83. doi: 10.1364/AO.50.001979.
A stable 10 GHz pedestal-free short pulse generation scheme consisting of cascaded commercial LiNbO(3) modulators has been proposed and successfully demonstrated experimentally. Fiber-based pulse compression and reshaping stages have been utilized to obtain a 1.38 ps optical pulse train with very little pedestal and 132 fs timing jitter. Excellent performance of multiplexing from 10 Gbits/s to 160 Gbits/s using this method indicates good potential for application in ultrahigh-speed optical time-division-multiplexing systems.
