All-optical Phase Construction of ps-Pulses from Fiber Lasers for Coherent Signaling at Ultra-high Data Rates ( ≥ 160 Gb / s )

A novel method to reconstruct the optical phase of fiber laser data pulses allows for generating phase-coded signal formats at record high speed (up to 320 Gb/s). This enables the first-time analysis of nonlinear transmission properties of different coherent modulation formats at 160-Gb/s. 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 140.4050 Mode-locked lasers, 140.3510 Lasers, fiber, 060.5060 Phase modulation