A Variable delay optical buffer based on nonlinear polarization rotation in semiconductor optical amplifier

Mu Cheng, Chongqing Wu, Jussi Hiltunen, Yaping Wang, Qin Wang, Risto Myllylä

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    Abstract

    In this letter, a variable delay optical buffer with three stage-cascaded buffer units based on nonlinear polarization rotation in semiconductor optical amplifier is demonstrated. The buffer is suitable for integration, fast reconfiguration, scalable, and easy control. With the proposed buffers, 1024-bit data are buffered more than 100 different buffering times at 2.5 Gb/s.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1885-1887
    Number of pages3
    JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume21
    Issue number24
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • Nonlinear polarization rotation
    • NPR
    • optical buffer
    • optical communication
    • semiconductor optical amplifier
    • SOA

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