Engineering the nonlinear phase shift.
We treat the nonlinear phase shift response in the weak perturbation limit as a linear digital filter that can be synthesized into the values of its poles and zeros and mapped onto an optical architecture. This procedure results in a significant enhancement in the nonlinear sensitivity with a response that is robust to frequency changes within the filter passband. A precompensation technique can be used to reduce distortions under strongly driven nonlinear operation to achieve a larger phase shift. We also show that nonlinear sensitivity improves with increasing filter group delay and can be increased within constant linear bandwidth by use of higher-order filters.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9206, USA.
Yan
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Chen
Geeta
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Pasrija
Behrouz
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Farhang-Boroujeny
Steve
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Blair