Title :
Low-noise, pulsewidth tunable picosecond to femtosecond pulse generation by spectral filtering of wideband supercontinuum with variable bandwidth arrayed-waveguide grating filters
Author :
Morioka, T. ; Okamoto, K. ; Ishii, M. ; Saruwatari, M.
Author_Institution :
NTT Opt. Network Syst. Labs., Yokosuka, Japan
fDate :
4/25/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Pulsewidth tunable short optical pulses (0.37 ps~11.3 ps) are generated with an average time-bandwidth product of 0.46 by spectral filtering of a 100 nm-broadened supercontinuum with variable bandwidth arrayed-waveguide grating filters. The BER measurements show that the generated pulses are low-noise and promising for use in ultrafast optical signal processing
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical waveguide filters; 0.37 to 11.3 ps; BER; femtosecond pulses; low-noise pulsewidth tunable optical pulse generation; picosecond pulses; spectral filtering; time-bandwidth product; ultrafast optical signal processing; variable bandwidth arrayed-waveguide grating filters; wideband supercontinuum;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19960561
