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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Pulse shaper in a loop: demonstration of cascadable ultrafast all-optical code translation
1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 465 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2035, USA. sdsphoto@mju.ac.kr
Abstract:
We experimentally demonstrate repetitive M-ary spectral phase pulse shaping by placing a programmable pulse shaper driven by a 10-GHz source in a closed loop. This permits generation of encoded and decoded signals in the same apparatus by forming a closed loop to circulate a part of the output back into the pulse shaper. As a result, a series of M - 1 distinct encoded waveforms is sequentially generated, followed by generation of a properly decoded pulse.
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