An all-optical buffer based on temporal cavity solitons operating at 10 Gb/s
arXiv:1607.07154 · doi:10.1364/OL.41.004526
Abstract
We demonstrate the operation of an all-optical buffer based on temporal cavity solitons stored in a nonlinear passive fiber ring resonator. Unwanted acoustic interactions between neighboring solitons are suppressed by modulating the phase of the external laser driving the cavity. A new locking scheme is presented that allows the buffer to operate with an arbitrarily large number of cavity solitons in the loop. Experimentally, we are able to demonstrate the storage of 4536 bits of data, written all-optically into the fiber ring at 10 Gb/s, for 1 minute.
arXiv comment5 pages, 4 figures
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