Ultrafast optics techniques for microwave/millimeter-wave arbitrary waveform generation

Author

Weiner, A.M. ; McKinney, J.D. ; Leaird, D.E. ; Lin, I. ; Seo, D.S. ; Toong, F.S. ; Xiao, S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1011

Abstract

In this paper we review work at Purdue in which shaped optical pulses are used to drive an optical-to-electrical (O/E) converter. This leverages our femtosecond optical arbitrary waveform generation(AWG) technology to achieve generation of arbitrary voltage waveforms in the range between a few GHz and 50 GHz. A dispersive fiber is used to stretch the optical waveform duration prior to optical-to-electrical converter. The optical power spectrum is shaped using a Fourier transform pulse shaper prior to dispersive stretching.

Keywords

Fourier transform optics; electro-optical devices; microwave generation; millimetre wave generation; optical fibre dispersion; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; reviews; 50 GHz; Fourier transform pulse shaper; dispersive fiber; dispersive stretching; femtosecond optical arbitrary waveform generation; microwave generation; millimeter wave generation; optical power spectrum; optical pulse; optical-electrical converter; reviews; ultrafast optics technique; voltage waveform generation; Dispersion; Fourier transforms; Microwave generation; Microwave theory and techniques; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Power generation; Signal generators; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1253150

Filename

1253150