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Intelligent Optical Chip to Improve Telecommunications

Intelligent optical chip to improve telecommunications
Experimental setup for the optical pulse shaping. SDL, split-and-delay line; MLL, mode-locked laser; PD, photodiode; FM, Faraday mirror; TBPF, tunable bandpass filter; HNLF, highly nonlinear fiber; EDFA, erbium-doped fiber amplifier; OFC, optical fiber coupler. Inset (a) Optical FWM spectrum after HNLF; inset (b) sampling characterization: sampled waveform from the oscilloscope after calibration (in blue), retrieved waveform from the sampling (pink area), and autocorrelation trace (solid black line, measured with a Femtochrome FR-103XL autocorrelator). The autocorrelation factor (i.e., 0.707) has been applied to the presented time axis. Hence, both displayed values show the FWHM pulse width. Credit: Institut national de la recherche scientifique – INRS

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Graphene paves the way to Faster High-speed Optical Communications

Electrical control of third harmonic generation (THG) can be obtained in single-layer graphene. In THG three low-frequency photons (red) sum up to generate one high-frequency (blue) photon. For this reason, THG can be used for optical frequency converters. Credit: Giancarlo Soavi, University of Cambridge

Electrical control of third harmonic generation (THG) can be obtained in single-layer graphene. In THG three low-frequency photons (red) sum up to generate one high-frequency (blue) photon. For this reason, THG can be used for optical frequency converters. Credit: Giancarlo Soavi, University of Cambridge

Technology could lead to new devices for faster, more reliable ultra-broad bandwidth transfers. For the first time, researchers demonstrated how electrical fields boost the non-linear optical effects of graphene. Graphene, among other materials, can capture photons, combine them, and produce a more powerful optical beam. This is due to a physical phenomenon called the optical harmonic generation, which is characteristic of nonlinear materials...

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