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All-optical regenerative technique for width-tunable ultra-wideband signal generation

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We demonstrate all-optical generation of width-tunable mono-cycle pulses for ultra-wideband communication. It has been shown that the width of the mono-cycle pulses can be tuned dynamically by simply varying the power of the optical signal. We also investigate the regenerative property of the nonlinear medium-based technique for the generation of mono-cycle pulses. For the purpose of comparison, ultra-wideband mono-cycle pulses are also generated through the optical delay line-based technique. It has been demonstrated through numerical simulations that the nonlinear medium-based technique is highly resilient to amplified spontaneous emission noise that is induced over the optical signal. Furthermore, we have shown that the highly nonlinear fiber-based nonlinear medium performs better than the semiconductor optical amplifier-based medium. Bit error rate measurements are taken for different values of optical signal-to-noise ratios in order to elaborate our work.

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  1. Electrical Engineering Department, HITEC University, Taxila, Pakistan

    Jawad Mirza & Ashiq Hussain

  2. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Salman Ghafoor

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Mirza, J., Ghafoor, S. & Hussain, A. All-optical regenerative technique for width-tunable ultra-wideband signal generation. Photon Netw Commun 38, 98–107 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-018-0818-0

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