This paper presents applications of nonlinear optics and ultrafast pulse lasers for optical information processing. Nonlinear wave mixing process based on three- and four- wave mixing in a second order nonlinear crystal inside the spectral processing device (SPD) is utilized. Signal processing is performed in the temporal frequency domain by spatially dispersing the frequency components in a SPD and performing operations on the spectrally decomposed wave (SDW) using its unique time-domain properties. These techniques enable femtosecond rate space-to-time conversion for multiplexing an ultrahigh bandwidth serial temporal channel onto slower parallel channels.


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    Title :

    Applications of optical nonlinearities for signal processing


    Contributors:
    Fainman, Y. (author) / Panasenko, D. (author) / Rokitski, R. (author) / Saperstein, R. (author) / Marom, D.M. (author) / Mazurenko, Y.T. (author) / Sun, P.C. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    186809 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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