Scalable optical serial to parallel converter based on prechirped pulse probe and cross‐phase modulation in fiber

We proposed and demonstrated 40–4 × 10 Gb/s optical serial to parallel converter based on the prechirped pulse probe and the fiber cross-phase modulation-based optical gate. We further show the potential to extend the demonstrated scheme to larger than 8 parallelization scale. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 54:2108–2110, 2012; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.27006