All-optical phase construction of ps-pulses from fiber lasers for coherent signaling at ultra-high data rates (/spl ges/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.