Optical temporal encoding/decoding of short pulses using cascaded long-period fiber gratings
- 17 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 11 (23) , 3034-3040
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.11.003034
Abstract
A novel, optical temporal encoding/decoding method is proposed and demonstrated. This can be accomplished by passing a short optical pulse through cascaded long-period fiber gratings. It has the advantages of constructing ultrafast codes and developing resistance to interferometric perturbations among the coded pulses. To verify the feasibility as a code generator, two types of codes are generated and compared with the predicted code patterns. In addition, to show an application for an optical code-division-multiplexing system, decoding performances with matched and unmatched decoders are compared.Keywords
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