Attosecond photonics for optical communications
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Nejadmalayeri, Amir H.; Grein, Matthew E.; Spector, Steven J.; Khilo, Anatol; Peng, Michael Y.; Sander, Michelle Y.; Wang, Jade; Benedick, Andrew J.; Sorace, Cheryl M.; Geis, Michael W.; Willis, Matthew M.; Lennon, Donna M.; Yoon, Jung U.; Lyszczarz, Theodore M.; Ippen, Erich P.; Kartner, Franz X.
- Source
- OFC/NFOEC Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. :1-3 Mar, 2012
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Photonics
Laser mode locking
Optical pulses
Optical fibers
High-speed optical techniques
Optical receivers
- Language
Recent experiments have demonstrated that low-jitter mode locked lasers enable unprecedented high-resolution high-speed analog to digital conversion. That capability may be leveraged to bring spectral efficiency of optical transport systems to its Shannon limit.