Highly scalable serial-parallel optical delay line

Varghese Baby, Bing C. Wang, Lei Xu, Ivan Glesk, Paul R. Prucnal

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Abstract

We present a complete analysis of the operation of an ultra-fast tunable parallel optical delay line. Based on our analysis, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a generalized serial-parallel delay line structure, which provides better scalability with respect to the number of timeslots. The delay line uses one electro-optic modulator and an all-fiber delay lattice. We also present a discussion on two important performance measures of this delay line - the tuning speed and the optical power loss.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)235-242
Number of pages8
JournalOptics Communications
Volume218
Issue number4-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2003

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • OCDMA
  • OTDM
  • Optical communications
  • Optical delay lines

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