Regenerative 40 Gbit/s wavelength converter based on similariton generation

Opt Lett. 2005 Jul 15;30(14):1776-8. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.001776.

Abstract

We present an all-optical regeneration technique based on spectral filtering of self-similar parabolic pulses (similaritons). In particular, we demonstrate numerically and experimentally that ghost pulses, which occur in the zero bit slots of telecommunication pulse trains, can be effectively suppressed. These results are obtained with a 40 Gbit/s pulse train.