Experimental Verification of the Pulse Shepherding Concept in Dispersion-Shifted Single-Mode Fiber for Bit-Parallel Wavelength Links

Abstract

A new way to dynamically control in-flight pulses by a co-propagating shepherd pulse in a wavelength divsion multiplexed (WDM) single-mode fiber system was proposed at the MPPOI '96 Conference. That system functionally resembles an optical fiber ribbon cable, except that all the bits pass on one fiber optic waveguide.