| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R85211/01 |
| Title: |
IMPULSE:IMPlanted integrated saturable absorbers for ULtra-high SpEed optical transmission |
| Principal Investigator: |
Seeds, Professor AJ |
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| Department: |
Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
15 September 2002 |
Ends: |
14 March 2006 |
Value (£): |
281,773
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Lasers & Optics |
Optical Communications |
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| Communications |
Electronics |
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Describe the proposed research in about 200 words.The aim of the research is to integrate ultra-fast ion ion implanted saturable absorbers into semiconductor laser amplifiers and then integrate these semiconductor laser amplifier/implanted saturable absorbers (SLA/ISAs) into high channel rate (>40 Gb/s) dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM) optical transmission systems. The systems objective is to use the SLA/ISAs to reduce the need for complex optical-electronic-optical signal regenerators to obtain low bit error rate operation at high channel data rates.Ion implantation normal to the junction planein specially fabricated SLA/ISAs will be used to obtain fast (<5ps) recovery time for the saturable absorbers, while integration of the absorber with the SLA leads to low absorber induced loss penalty. Device properties will be characterised using a 2ps resolution tuneable pump-probe system and by direct observation of 40 Gb/s pulse output.Key issues to be addressed include design of dispersion managed high bit-rate (40 Gb/s, 80 Gb/s and beyond) transmission systems using SLA/ISAs, determination of optimum SLA/ISA parameters, work on $LA/ISA integration technologies, device evaluation and high bit rate (>40 Gb/s) DWDM transmission evaluation carried out using recirculating loop systems provided by our industrial collaborators.
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