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

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.