eprintid: 37421 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 1903 dir: disk0/00/03/74/21 datestamp: 2015-09-09 19:03:05 lastmod: 2015-09-09 19:03:05 status_changed: 2015-09-09 19:03:05 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Moreno Galue, Vanessa creators_name: Rius, Manuel creators_name: Mora, José creators_name: Muriel Fernández, Miguel Ángel creators_name: Capmany, José creators_id: m.muriel@upm.es creators_orcid: 0000-0002-5148-6624 title: UWB Monocycle Generator based on the non-linear effects of an SOA-integrated structure ispublished: pub subjects: telecomunicaciones keywords: Microwave photonics, optical interferometry, semiconductor optical amplifiers, ultra wideband technology, optical communications abstract: In this letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel and single structure to generate ultra-wideband (UWB) pulses by means of the cross-phase modulation present in a semiconductor optical amplifier unified structure. The key components of this system is an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two semiconductor optical amplifiers and an optical processing unit. The fusion of these two components permits the generation and customization of UWB monocycle pulses. The polarity of the output pulses is easily modified through the single selection of a specific input port. Moreover, the capacity of transmitting several data sequences is demonstrated and the potentiality to adapt the system to different modulation formats is analyzed. date: 2014-04 date_type: published publisher: IEEE official_url: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6728702 id_number: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2302319 full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters volume: 26 number: 7 pagerange: 690-693 institution: Telecomunicacion department: Tecnologia_fotonica_2014 refereed: TRUE issn: 1041-1135 rights: by-nc-nd comprojects_type: MINECO comprojects_code: TEC2010-21303-C04-02 citation: Moreno Galue, Vanessa, Rius, Manuel, Mora, José, Muriel Fernández, Miguel Ángel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5148-6624 and Capmany, José (2014). UWB Monocycle Generator based on the non-linear effects of an SOA-integrated structure. "IEEE Photonics Technology Letters", v. 26 (n. 7); pp. 690-693. ISSN 1041-1135. https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2014.2302319 . document_url: https://oa.upm.es/37421/1/INVE_MEM_2014_195008.pdf