Title :
Generation of ultra-high repetition rate optical pulse bursts by means of fibre Bragg gratings operating in transmission
Author :
Azana, Jose ; Slavik, R. ; Kockaert, P. ; Chen, L.R. ; LaRochelle, S.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Group, McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
fDate :
11/21/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An experimental demonstration of the use of specially apodised, linearly chirped fibre Bragg gratings operating in transmission for generating a customised ultra-high repetition rate optical pulse burst (325 GHz, in the example shown) from a single ultra-short pulse.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; optical fibre filters; optical pulse generation; 325 GHz; all-fibre periodic amplitude filters; amplitude filtering stages; apodisation profile; apodised linearly chirped fibre Bragg gratings; customised ultra-high repetition rate optical pulse burst; fibre Bragg gratings; single ultra-short pulse; transmission operation; ultra-high repetition rate optical pulse burst generation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20021048
