Self-similar propagation of ultrashort, parabolic pulses in a laser resonator is observed theoretically and experimentally. This constitutes a new type of pulse shaping in mode-locked lasers: in contrast to the well-known static (solitonlike) and breathing (dispersion-managed soliton) pulse evolutions, asymptotic solutions to the nonlinear wave equation that governs pulse propagation in most of...

The split-symbol moment estimation (SSME) algorithm is a conventional method to estimate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in communication systems for M-ary phase shift keying signals. However, the conventional SSME is based on the assumption of symmetric pulse-shaping waveforms, and becomes no longer proper when the shaping pulse is asymmetric. In this paper, we propose a modified SSME algorith...

Efficient confinement of laser radiation in the core of a photonic crystal fiber increases the nonlinear processes resulting in supercontinuum generation. The technique of adaptive pulse shaping using an evolutionary algorithm provides a method to gain control over such highly nonlinear processes. Adaptive pulse shaping of the driving laser radiation passing through the photonic crystal fiber i...

One of the drawback of multicarrier code division multiple access (MC CDMA) is the high peak to average power ratio (PAPR). In this paper A novel scheme based on pulse shaping described for PAPR reduction. Here three different pulse shaping filters (Raised cosine, Sinc power pulse and Nyqist pulse) are described for PAPR reduction in MC CDMA system. The method is based on the proper selection o...

Vectorial optical arbitrary waveform generation is experimentally demonstrated by applying polarization line-by-line pulse shaping on a phase-modulated continuous laser frequency comb. Polarization shaped optical waveforms extending a 50-ps time window are successfully synthesized. Temporal Talbot effect is extended into the vectorial regime, where the distinct periodic temporal phases of the t...

| 1 For Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex-ing (OFDM) schemes, the time waveform plays a major role not only in shaping the spectrum of the transmitted signal but also in separating the signal subcarriers at the receiver. The selection of such waveform is then very important and can make a big diierence in spectrum utilization and system performance. The diiculty in using pulse shaping wit...

We demonstrate the use of fiber Bragg grating based pulse-shaping technology to provide timing jitter tolerant data demultiplexing in an 80 Gb/s all-optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) system. Error-free demultiplexing operation is achieved with 6 ps timing jitter tolerance using superstructured fiber Bragg grating based 1.7 ps soliton to 10 ps rectangular pulse conversion at the switchin...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is an efficient method of data transmission for high speed communication systems. However, the main drawback of OFDM system is the high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the transmitted signal. OFDM consist of large number of independent subcarriers, as a result of which the amplitude of such signal can have high peak values. Pulse shaping u...