Amplitude/Timing Jitter and Peak-to-Peak Variation Optimal Rate Multipliers

We present the design and performance validation of jitter and peak-to-peak variation optimal rate multipliers based on finite-impulse-response optical interferometers. To this end, we show that uniform impulse response interferometers yield minimum jitter and peak-to-peak variation for most practical cases. We also discuss the realization of optimal interferometers with sampled fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), and show by means of numerical simulations that the jitter and peak-to-peak variation performance of the designed FBGs is in close agreement with the theory.