Title :
Near-Nyquist sinc shaped optical pulse generation in fiber optical parametric amplifier
Author :
Vedadi, A. ; Shoaie, Mohammad Amin ; Bres, C.-S.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Lab. (PHOSL), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Using optical fiber amplification and phase modulation, we demonstrate experimentally the generation of pulses with characteristics that are close to Nyquist limited sinc pulses. Bandwidth limited pulses of full width half maximum less than 17 ps at 10 GHz repetition rate are achieved.
Keywords :
optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; phase modulation; Nyquist limited sinc pulses; fiber optical parametric amplifier; frequency 10 GHz; near-Nyquist sinc shape; optical pulse generation; phase modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Phase modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
