We present here the construction and application of a compact benchtop time-resolved Kerr magnetometer to measure the magnetization precession in magnetic thin films and lithographically patterned elements. As opposed to very expensive femtosecond lasers this system is built upon a picosecond pulsed injection diode laser and electronic pulse and delay generators. The precession is triggered by ...

This paper proposes a Bandwidth Utilization in wavelength-divisionmultiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) subject to requirements of fairness, efficiency, and cost. An Optical Line Terminal (OLT)-centric bandwidth allocation model is proposed which employs a credit pooling technique combined with a weighted-share policy to partition the upstream bandwidth among different classes of servic...

We design an all-optical tunable delay line based on both dispersive and wavelength conversion stages involving modulational instability of a twofrequency pump field propagating in a highly birefringent fiber. More precisely, we numerically show that, by varying the frequency separation between the two orthogonally polarized pump waves, we achieve a controllable and continuous delay of hundreds...

We investigate theoretically the effects of a dynamically increasing medium index on optical-wave propagation in a rubidium condensate. A long pulsed pump laser coupling a D2 line transition produces a rapidly growing internally generated field. This results in a significant optical self-focusing effect and creates a dynamically growing medium index anomaly that propagates ultraslowly with the ...

We demonstrate a delay line optical recognizer at 2.5 Gbit/s. Recognition is based on a coherent-to-chaotic light conversion followed by a fiber array correlation filter. Experimental evidence shows performance improvement in comparison with a classical scheme as far as phase noise is concerned. An experimental characterization of the recognizer is reported. Methods for improving the recognitio...

This paper presents a digitally programmable delay line intended for use as timing generator in a RADAR ranging system. Traditional delay lines are realized selecting the delayed signal from a tap in a cascade of delay elements, resulting in a delay resolution limited by the matching errors between the delay elements. The architecture of the programmable delay line presented in this paper uses ...

A novel high performance computing system based on optical packet switching and optical multicast technologies is presented. Distributed management architecture is used to alleviate the storing and computing pressures of every stage, which is easy to realize all-optical scalability. Asynchronous switching mode is accepted at every stage for high-speed and huge-capacity burst services transmissi...

We use fine-detuning of pump wavelengths to adjust the tap phases in a complex-coefficient optical tapped-delay-line that utilizes conversion/dispersion-based delays and nonlinear wave mixing. Full 2π phase tuning is demonstrated by detuning the frequency of laser pumps by <20  GHz, which shows close agreement with theory.