Title :
Pulse repetition rate multiplication using phase-only filtering
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nat. de la Recherche Scientifique Energie, Montreal, Que., Canada
fDate :
4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The fact that temporal Talbot (self-imaging) effects of periodic optical pulse sequences are not necessarily restricted to first-order dispersive media is demonstrated and the required conditions for achieving integer and fractional Talbot phenomena in a general dispersive medium are derived. These results are of interest for implementing lossless pulse repetition rate multiplication using customised allpass phase-optical filters.
Keywords :
Talbot effect; all-pass filters; dispersive media; filtering theory; high-speed optical techniques; optical filters; spatial filters; allpass phase optical filters; first order dispersive media; periodic optical pulse sequences; phase only filtering; pulse repetition rate multiplication; self imaging effect; temporal Talbot effect;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20040259
