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Optics Letters

Experimental demonstration of swept-carrier time-domain optical memory

Haifeng Lin, T. Wang, Geoffrey A. Wilson, THOMAS W. MOSSBERG

Published Jan 1, 1995• 36 citations
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Abstract

Swept-carrier time-domain optical memory [Opt. Lett. 17, 535 (1992)] has been proposed as a means of storing optical data streams in inhomogeneously broadened spectral recording materials. The process provides for full utilization of the material storage bandwidth regardless of the data rate and permits storage of data sequences with durations exceeding the material dephasing time. We report what we believe is the first experimental demonstration of this storage process. Our experiments, implemented with frequency-swept diode lasers and Tm(3+):YAG storage material, demonstrate single-event storage of 98-bit data streams whose duration is an order of magnitude longer than the material dephasing time.

DOI
10.1364/ol.20.000091

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We demonstrate the impulse-equivalent approach [Opt. Lett. 21, 833 (1996)] to time-domain storage of optical data. Using the 128-bit real Huffman-Ackroyd code as the write-read sequences, we have successfully stored a 42-micros-long stream containing 420 bits of data in a 40-MHz spectral channel in a Eu(3+):Y(2)SiO(5) crystal. The stored data were repeatedly recalled as many as eight times with high signal f idelity, showing no measurable sidelobe-induced noise. Data retrieval with the use of mismatched write-read pulses was also examined, and implications of the results for data encryption are discussed.
We report a novel technique for storing digital optical data in coherent time-domain optical memory to circumvent the problem of coherent saturation. In this technique, the carrier frequency of a data stream to be stored is slowly chirped so its power is spread over the data bandwidth for maximum data storage. In a proof-of-concept experiment, a total of 500 bits of data were stored at a rate of 20 Mbits/s in a 45-MHz-wide channel within the inhomogeneous line of the (7)F(0)-(5)D(l) transition in Eu(3+):Y(2)SiO(5). The result suggests a minimum storage density of ~1.5 Gbits/cm(3) for this transition. Issues related to the storage of frequency-chirped data, such as the optimum chirp width and the saturation owing to peak-sidelobe interference, are also discussed.
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