Title :
Elimination of the chirp of optical pulses through cascaded nonlinearities in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides
Author :
Lee, Kwang Jo ; Liu, Sheng ; Gallo, Katia ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Richardson, David J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate a novel method for the elimination of arbitrary frequency chirp from short optical pulses. The technique is based on the combination of two cascaded second-order nonlinearities in two individual periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; optical pulse compression; waveguides; arbitrary frequency chirp; cascaded nonlinearities; periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides; short optical pulses; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621351
