Abstract
All-optical tunable delay plays an important role for enabling high-throughput
optical routing, such as buffer for contention resolution and timing synchronization.
We proposed and demonstrated a widely tunable optical delay using optical
Kerr-switch-based wavelength converter and pulse pre-chirping for compensating
chromatic dispersion in fiber delay. With wideband operation provided by a
Kerr-switch wavelength converter, a tunable delay range up to 8.56 ns was
achieved. Meanwhile, pulse pre-chirping helped to alleviate group-velocity
dispersion (GVD)-induced penalty, and provided simultaneous nonreturn-zero
(NRZ)-to-RZ format conversion functionality.
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