Experimental Demonstration of Optical Retiming Using Temporal Soliton Molecules
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Johnson, S.; Pau, S.; Kuppers, F.
- Source
- Journal of Lightwave Technology J. Lightwave Technol. Lightwave Technology, Journal of. 29(23):3493-3499 Dec, 2011
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fiber dispersion
Clocks
Optical fibers
Optical solitons
Optical pulses
Nonlinear fiber optics
optical retiming
temporal solitons
- Language
- ISSN
- 0733-8724
1558-2213
We experimentally demonstrate optical retiming of a 10.7 Gb/s data stream utilizing the property of bound soliton pairs (or “soliton molecules”) to relax to an equilibrium temporal separation after propagation through a nonlinear dispersion alternating fiber span. Pulses offset up to 16 ps from bit center are successfully retimed. The results of the experiment are in agreement with numerical simulations. An enhanced version of this retiming scheme is analyzed using numerical simulations.