Arbitrary waveform optical pulse generation using an optical pulse synthesizer

Author

Miyamoto, Daisuke ; Mandai, Kohei ; Tsuda, Hiroyuki ; Aizawa, Koichi ; Kurokawa, Takashi

Author_Institution

Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

22-24 June 2005

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

68

Abstract

We have proposed an optical pulse synthesizer, which consists of optical modulators and an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG). This system can generate arbitrary waveform pulses in combination with broadband optical frequency comb. We achieved generation of the Gaussian pulse with a width of 5.1 ps, double-Gaussian pulse and rectangular-shaped pulse as arbitrary waveform pulse synthesis, at a high repetition rate of 10 GHz.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; integrated optics; laser beams; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; waveform generators; 10 GHz; 5.1 ps; Gaussian pulse; arbitrary waveform generation; arbitrary waveform pulses; arrayed waveguide grating; broadband optical frequency comb; optical modulators; optical pulse generation; optical pulse synthesizer; rectangular-shaped pulse; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Frequency; Optical arrays; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse modulation; Space vector pulse width modulation; Synthesizers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fibres and Optical Passive Components, 2005. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/LEOS Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8949-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFOPC.2005.1462102

Filename

1462102