All-optical loadable and erasable storage buffer based on parametric nonlinearity in fiber

Dual-wavelength Packet Signal Storage with SOA-based Dual Loop Optical Buffer

“…Now the output trace of P-1 will be distorted because of the overlapping, as shown in Fig 8(a). From Eqn (11), the distortion effect may be mitigated when the input pulse shape is closer to the square pulse shape. When the delay of ODL is zero and the dualwavelength pulse is overlapping completely, ie x = -3, the output trace of P-1 is observed in Fig 8(b) and the output trace of P-1 with pattern '111100110101111' is plotted in Fig 8(c).…”

Optical Buffering and Switching for Optical Packet Switching

“…Optical storage of at least 0.1 ms has been demonstrated using feed-forward architectures such as a folded-path buffer [ 7] and fiber Bragg gratings [8 ], as well as feed-back architectures employing parametric nonlinearity in fiber [9] and fiber nonlinear loop mirrors [ 10]. High data rate results were achieved as early as 1998 using a compensating fiber loop buffer to achieve 20 µs of storage at 40 Gb/s [ 11].…”

Polarization properties of nonlinear optical loop mirror with twisted fiber and birefringence bias in the loop

“…[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] The intensity-dependent transmission characteristic of the NOLM is originally based on a nonlinear differential phase shift between the counter-propagating beams in the loop, it is generally attributed to Self-Phase Modulation (SPM). A variation of the differential phase by π will cause a change of the NOLM from high transmission to a high reflection.…”