Estimating intensity fluctuations in high repetition rate pulse trains generated using the temporal Talbot effect

Author

Pudo, Dominik ; Chen, Lawrence R.

Author_Institution

Photonic Syst. Group, McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

18

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

658

Lastpage

660

Abstract

We derive the upper limit of the peak intensity fluctuations for high repetition rate pulse trains generated using the fractional temporal Talbot effect for pulse repetition rate multiplication. Our analysis is general, can be applied to any input pulse shape, and can be used as a design tool to determine the input pulsewidth that will minimize the output amplitude fluctuations for a given multiplication rate.

Keywords

Talbot effect; fluctuations; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; amplitude fluctuations; high repetition rate pulse trains; input pulse shape; input pulsewidth; intensity fluctuations; optical pulse generation; pulse repetition rate multiplication; temporal Talbot effect; Dispersion; Fluctuations; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; Signal analysis; Space vector pulse width modulation; Talbot effect; Optical pulse generation; pulse repetition rate multiplication (PRRM); temporal Talbot effect;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.870085

Filename

1593722