Femtosecond optical pulse generation employing a supercontinuum lightwave source and a tunable dispersion compensator based on arrayed-waveguide gratings and liquid crystal on silicon

Author

Mori, Kunihiko ; Suzuki, Kenya ; Ooba, Naoki

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Nearly transform-limited pulses with a temporal width of 744 fs were produced by compensating up to fourth order chirp in a supercontinuum lightwave by employing a tunable optical dispersion compensator based on liquid crystal on silicon and two arrayed-waveguide gratings.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; chirp modulation; laser tuning; light sources; liquid crystal on silicon; optical dispersion; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; supercontinuum generation; arrayed-waveguide gratings; femtosecond optical pulse generation; fourth order chirp; liquid crystal-on-silicon; semiconductor laser; supercontinuum lightwave source; time 744 fs; transform-limited pulses; tunable dispersion compensator; Chirp; Gratings; Liquid crystal on silicon; Optical arrays; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics; Chirp; Chromatic dispersion; Dispersion compensation; Liquid crystal on silicon; Supercontinuum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3830-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292089

Filename

5292089