Asymptotic properties of incoherent waves propagating in an all-optical regenerators line

Opt Lett. 2007 Nov 15;32(22):3263-5. doi: 10.1364/ol.32.003263.

Abstract

We present an original method to generate optical pulse trains with random time-interval values from incoherent broadband sources. More precisely, our technique relies on the remarkable properties of a line made of cascaded self-phase modulation-based optical regenerators. Depending on the regenerator parameters, various regimes with noticeably different physical behaviors can be reported.