Publications by Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Sensitive and Accurate Dispersion Map Extraction of HNLFs by Frequency Tuning of a Degenerate FWM

Fatemeh Alishahi, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A sensitive and accurate method for dispersion map extraction along an arbitrarily profiled highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) is proposed. High sensitivity is achieved by positioning the wavelength of a signal at the band edge of the modulation instability (MI ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Wideband All-Optical 3R WDM Regeneration Based on Dual-Pump Parametric Amplifier

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Simultaneous all-optical 3R regeneration of WDM channels is demonstrated, based on dual-pump parametric amplification with sinusoidal modulated pumps. We observe receiver sensitivity improvement better than 1.5dB for five WDM channels modulated with 10Gb/s ...

Ieee2016

Optical Signal Processing and Pulse Shaping for Wavelength Multiplexed High Speed Communication Systems

Mohammad Amin Shoaie

The steady growth of capacity demand in telecommunication networks has sparked the development of various photonic devices for ultrafast optical signal processing functions to meet the requirements of future flexible fiber networks in general and backbone ...

EPFL2016

System and method for producing optical sinc-shaped pulses

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

System and methods for producing a plurality of Sinc shaped pulses in the time domain include a light source for providing an input light signal having an input frequency, and at least one spectrum shaper for producing the plurality of Sinc shaped pulses f ...

United States Patent and Trademark Office2015

Broadband Uniform Wavelength Conversion and Time Compression of WDM Channels

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A scheme based on 2-pump OPA is proposed for uniform wavelength conversion and optimized compression. We show 4.7-fold compression over 32 nm range resulting in Gaussian pulses from sinusoidal modulation and enabling simultaneous compression of WDM channel ...

2015

A simple all-optical format transparent time and wavelength demultiplexing technique for WDM & Orthogonal-TDM Nyquist channels

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A novel and simple non-coherent method to demultiplex WDM and orthogonal TDM Nyquist signal is presented. Using intensity modulators and filter, demultiplexing from a 3x8x10 = 240 Gb/s signal down to 10 Gb/s is demonstrated. ...

2015

Towards highest spectral efficiency: Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses generation from rectangular frequency comb

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

In this paper, we review a method to produce optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with unprecedented quality. The method is based on the synthesis of a rectangular shaped and phase-locked frequency comb from a combination of intensity modulators. The result ...

IEEE2014

Effect of Dispersion Fluctuations on Longitudinal Gain Evolution in Phase-Sensitive Parametric Amplifiers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov, Fatemeh Alishahi, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A Brillouin probing method is proposed to extract the distribution of signal power along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers. Operation near the zero-dispersion-wavelength shows enhanced sensitivity to dispersion fluctuations, allowing effective extracti ...

2014

Bandwidth and repetition rate programmable Nyquist sinc-shaped pulse train source based on intensity modulators and four-wave mixing

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie, Steevy Joyce Cordette

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an all-optical Nyquist sinc-shaped pulse train source based on intensity modulation and four-wave mixing. The proposed scheme allows for the tunability of the bandwidth and the full flexibility of the repetition ra ...

2014

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses possess a rectangular spectrum, enabling data to be encoded in a minimum spectral bandwidth and satisfying by essence the Nyquist criterion of zero inter-symbol interference (ISI). This property makes them very attractive for com ...

Nature Research2013

Optical Nyquist-pulse generation with a power difference to the ideal sinc-shape sequence of < 1%

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Sinc-shaped Nyquist-pulses possess a rectangular spectrum. Thus, a sinc-pulse transmission minimizes the carrier spacing down to the baud rate, and therefore, substantially increases the transmissible data rates. These perspectives have led to a strong res ...

VDE Verlag GmbH2013

Generation of Nyquist sinc pulses using intensity modulators

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses are produced based on the generation of an ideal frequency comb using cascaded intensity modulators. Nyquist pulses with 9.8-ps temporal width, 82-fs jitter and more than 40 dB SNR are achieved. ...

2013

Wideband Uniform Generation of Shape-Adjustable Pulses in Two-Pump Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifier

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A tunable, stable pulse generation technique based on two-pump fiber optic parametric amplification is theoretically analyzed and experimentally demonstrated to generate uniform near-Gaussian pulses over 32 nm. It is shown that pulse shape can also be tune ...

2013

Highly tunable method to generate sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses from a rectangular frequency comb

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A method to produce highly-stable optical sinc-shaped pulses is proposed based on the generation of a rectangular-spectrum frequency comb. Nyquist pulses with

OSA2013

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with very low roll-off generated from a rectangular frequency comb

Luc Thévenaz, Mohammad Mehdi Alem Karladani, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

High-quality optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses with a virtual zero roll-off factor are obtained from the generation of a phase-locked, rectangular-spectrum frequency comb. Tunability over more than 4 frequency decades is demonstrated with

Optical Society of America2013

Experimental investigation of pulse generation with one-pump fiber optical parametric amplification

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

In a recent study, the theory of pulse generation with fiber optical parametric amplification using sinusoidal (clock) intensity modulated pump was revisited [1]. This work showed that the pulses generated through such parametric interaction exhibit a shap ...

Optical Society of America2012

Near-Nyquist optical pulse generation with fiber optical parametric amplification

Camille Sophie Brès, Mohammad Amin Shoaie

A novel method using optical fiber parametric amplification and phase modulation is proposed in order to generate Nyquist pulses. Using parabolic pulses as a pump, we show theoretically that it is possible to generate Nyquist pulses. Furthermore, we show t ...

Optical Society of America2012