A time-division Brillouin optical correlation domain analysis system was successfully achieved using simplified laser diode (LD) modulation and pump lightwave optimization. A complicated transfer function for a precise output waveform of a LD was required for the conventional system. However, a very simple modulation function gave a power output very close to a required ideal rectangle waveform without sacrificing optical output spectrum. An electrical input waveform applied into a gate in the pump lightwave path was also optimized for eliminating a probe lightwave included in a pump lightwave and for passing consecutive pump pulses alternatively. So the stimulated Brillouin scattering gain was attained without seriously distorting FM modulation, and the targeted spatial resolution was clearly accomplished. Additionally, using high speed response of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), unlike an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), the possibility was investigated that an SOA was going to replace an EDFA and a modulator used as a gate in the same time.
A receiver configuration using a single shared delay interferometer (DI) for optical differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) signals is demonstrated and investigated in 40-Gbit/s signal transmission. Experiment comparison between the proposed and conventional configurations is performed for signal performance and a 3-dB bandwidth of the receiver sensitivity penalty. The wavelength mismatch of optical components used and the effects are measured to investigate the wavelength dependency of the proposed configuration. This demonstrates that there is no difference in performance between the two configurations and between WDM channels in the proposed configuration. Thus, it is suggested that the proposed configuration using a single DI can be applied for 20 WDM channels between 1531.116 and 1561.419 nm, with 200-GHz channel spacing in a bandwidth of >30 nm, for receiving DPSK signals.
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