USE OF FAST IN-LINE SATURABLE ABSORBERS IN WAVELENGTH-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXED SOLITON SYSTEMS

Authors
AUDOUIN O PALLISE E DESURVIRE E MAUNAND E
Citation
O. Audouin et al., USE OF FAST IN-LINE SATURABLE ABSORBERS IN WAVELENGTH-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXED SOLITON SYSTEMS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 10(6), 1998, pp. 828-829
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
10
Issue
6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
828 - 829
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1998)10:6<828:UOFISA>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The potential of fast in-line saturable absorbers is investigated for multiwavelength soliton systems. Numerical simulations demonstrate tha t both synchronous and asynchronous 4 x 10 Gb/s transmissions are poss ible with this technique. Limitations by finite absorber dynamics are also analyzed. Q factors close to 10 are obtained for a 4 x 10 Gb/s tr ansmision with constant dispersion, provided that the absorber recover y time does not exceed 10 ps, The results demonstrate the capability o f saturable absorbers to enhance performance in passive wavelength-div ision-multiplexed (WDM) soliton systems.