Title :
An optical pulse generator from a sinusoidal optical signal using Sagnac loop - Self-sampling
Author :
Ribeiro, R.M. ; Silva, V.N.H. ; Barbero, A.P.L. ; Carvalho, Maira B. ; Lucarz, F. ; Fracasso, B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Eng. de Telecomun., Univ. Fed. Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil
Abstract :
It is experimentally shown an original optical pulse generator able to produce pulses at MHz rate with few ns timewidth at 1/3 of input period. It is based on the self-switched Semiconductor Laser Amplifier Loop Mirror (SLALOM) configuration. The input is a sinusoidal signal in the C-band and the output is amplified pulses. Numerical simulations are also carried out and shown that GHz & ps pulse generation is possible. Besides their usefulness as an optical pulse generator, application in self-sampling is also discussed.
Keywords :
Sagnac interferometers; optical pulse generation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal sampling; C-band; SLALOM configuration; Sagnac loop; optical pulse generator; self signal sampling; semiconductor laser amplifier loop mirror configuration; sinusoidal optical signal; Delays; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Sagnac interferometer; laser; optical signal processing; sampling; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultrafast-optics;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (LATINCOM), 2013 IEEE Latin-America Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santiago
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1146-2
DOI :
10.1109/LatinCom.2013.6759813
