Title :
Generating 20 GHz and 40 GHz pulse trains from a 10 GHz mode-locked laser using a tunable planar lightwave circuit and nonlinear wavelength conversion
Author :
Samadi, P. ; Chen, L.R. ; Kostko, I.A. ; Dumais, P. ; Callender, C.L. ; Jacob, S. ; Xia, B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We demonstrate the generation of 20 GHz and 40 GHz pulse trains using a tunable planar lightwave circuit (PLC) and nonlinear wavelength conversion. The PLC is a 6-stage lattice-form Mach-Zehnder interferometer fabricated in silica-on-silicon technology.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; laser mode locking; optical planar waveguides; optical pulse generation; optical wavelength conversion; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Si; SiO2; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 20 GHz; frequency 40 GHz; mode locked laser; nonlinear wavelength conversion; pulse train generation; silica-on-silicon technology; tunable planar lightwave circuit; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse generation; Pulse circuits; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
