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Differential Processing Using an Arrayed-Waveguide Grating
Hirokazu TAKENOUCHI Hiroyuki TSUDA Chikara AMANO Takashi GOH Katsunari OKAMOTO Takashi KUROKAWA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E82-B
No.8
pp.1252-1258 Publication Date: 1999/08/25 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications) Category: Optical Passive Devices and Modules Keyword: optical signal processing, arrayed-waveguide grating, differential processing, ultrafast optical pulse, optical fiber communication,
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Summary:
This paper reports on time-space conversion-based differential processing of optical signals using a high-resolution arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) and a spatial filter at a wavelength of 1.55 µm. We clarify the advantages of the AWG device and show where it is applicable. In order to reduce loss at the spatial filter, we propose a new phase-only filter that functions as a differential filter. The difference between the exact differential filter and the proposed phase-only filter is calculated theoretically. We confirm experimentally that the optical pulse can be differentiated by the proposed filter. For application of differential processing, we also proposed a phase modulation to amplitude modulation (PM-AM) conversion and demonstrated the PM-AM conversion at 10 Gbit/s signals using a PSK-non-return-to-zero (NRZ) format.
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