We present an application of femtosecond laser pulses that is not directly related to high speed, but rather makes use of the large spectral bandwidth of these pulses to address a systems issue in wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) communication links. One inherent difficulty of currently proposed WDM systems is the need for multiple lasers operating at different wavelengths, which hence have to be wavelength-selected and stabilized at that particular wavelength for years to come. We demonstrate a WDM system based on a single short-pulse laser source that covers all WDM channels simultaneously, hence eliminating many of the source problems of conventional WDM systems.


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    Title :

    Dense WDM with femtosecond laser pulses


    Contributors:
    Nuss, M.C. (author) / Knox, W.H. (author) / Miller, D.A.B. (author)

    Published in:

    Proceedings of LEOS'94 ; 2 ; 199-200 vol.2


    Publication date :

    1994-01-01


    Size :

    220495 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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