Title :
Tunable multiplication of the repetition rate of an optical pulse train using dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers
Author :
Chin, S. ; Primerov, N. ; Sales, S. ; Thévenaz, L.
Author_Institution :
Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Tunable multiplication of the repetition rate of an optical pulse train using dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers is reported. The generation of dynamic Brillouin gratings is based on the process of stimulated Brillouin scattering in polarization maintaining fibers (PMF), and it must be pointed out that the grating appears only at positions along the fiber where two pump pulses are simultaneously present.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical tuning; stimulated Brillouin scattering; dynamic Brillouin gratings; optical pulse train; optical pumping; optical tuning; polarization maintaining fibers; stimulated Brillouin scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942744
