Title :
Demonstration of a programmable all-fibre optical pulse shaper exploiting a single LC-FBG as Pre- and post-dispersive medium
Author :
Malacarne, Antonio ; Thomas, Saju ; Fresi, Francesco ; Poti, Luca ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Azaña, José
Author_Institution :
EMT, Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci. (INRS), Montreal, QC
Abstract :
Programmability of an all-fiber time-domain binary phase-only filtering system for arbitrary temporal optical pulse shaping is demonstrated through optical sampling measurements. A single linearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating is used as pre- and post-dispersive medium.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical pulse shaping; sampling methods; all-fibre optical pulse shaper; binary filtering system; linearly-chirped fiber Bragg grating; optical sampling measurements; phase-only filtering system; post-dispersive medium; predispersive medium; programmable optical pulse shaper; temporal optical pulse shaping; time-domain filtering system; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filtering; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse shaping methods; Time domain analysis; Ultrafast optics; chromatic dispersion compensation; fiber Bragg gratings; genetic algorithm; optical pulse shaping; processing of ultrashort optical pulses; ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688894
