• Optoelectronics Letters
  • Vol. 9, Issue 3, 173 (2013)
Ai-ling ZHANG*, Chang-xiu LI, and Yu-long ZHANG
Author Affiliations
  • Key Lab. of Film Electronics and Communication Devices of Tianjin, Communications Devices and Technology EngineeringResearch Center of Education Ministry of China, School of Computer and Communication Engineering,Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s11801-013-2357-3 Cite this Article
    ZHANG Ai-ling, LI Chang-xiu, ZHANG Yu-long. Beat signal compression by loop mirror constructed with linear dispersion decreasing fiber[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2013, 9(3): 173 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) constructed with linear dispersion decreasing fiber (DDF) is used to compress a beat signal. Several factors impacting on quality of output pulse in this compression system, such as dispersion slope of DDF, power-splitting ratio, incident pulse shape and peak power, are analyzed numerically. The new method for selecting device characteristics is adopted to enable both good pedestal suppression and pulse compression. As a result, the output pulse train with tunable and high repetition rate, pedestal energy of 5.09%, compression ratio of 25.6 and energy transmissivity of 50.56% is obtained by using 0.524 km-long DDF with dispersion slope of 26 ps2/km2 and a coupler with power-splitting ratio of 0.54.
    ZHANG Ai-ling, LI Chang-xiu, ZHANG Yu-long. Beat signal compression by loop mirror constructed with linear dispersion decreasing fiber[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2013, 9(3): 173
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