Wiberg, Andreas O. J.Brès, CamilleKuo, Bill P.-P.Zhao, John X.Alic, NikolaRadic, Stojan2011-12-122011-12-122011-12-12200910.1109/JQE.2009.2027137https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/73086In this paper, an RF-driven pedestal-free cavity-less 40 GHz pulse source for generation of high-speed optical time-division multiplexing signal is presented. The pulse source is based on pulse compression by means of self-phase modulation in combination with subsequent filtering. Further compression and pedestal removal of the pulse was achieved in one-pump fiber-optic parametric amplifier seeded by a continuous-wave laser source. The obtained idler pulses were characterized by a full-width at half-maximum pulsewidth of 1.2 ps and an SNR of 36 dB. Generation of 320 Gb/s data stream with a Q-factor of 20 dB is successfully demonstrated using the proposed pulse source.Four-photon mixing optical time-division multiplexingoptical fiber communicationoptical parametric amplifieroptical pulse generationoptical pulse shapingparametric processtext::journal::journal article::research article