Optical processing based on spectral line-by-line pulse shaping on a phase-modulated CW laser

Author

Jiang, Zhi ; Leaird, Daniel E. ; Weiner, Andrew M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

Volume

42

Issue

7

fYear

2006

fDate

7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

657

Lastpage

665

Abstract

We demonstrate optical processing based on spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of a frequency comb generated by phase modulating a CW laser and show various applications including CW-to-pulse conversion, width/wavelength tunable return-to-zero pulse generation, pulse-to-CW conversion, wavelength conversion, and microwave photonics. The correlations between optical spectra, time-domain waveforms, and RF spectra are quantitatively studied

Keywords

microwave photonics; optical correlation; optical modulation; optical pulse shaping; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; radiofrequency spectra; RF spectra; continuous-wave laser; continuous-wave-to-pulse conversion; microwave photonics; optical processing; optical spectra; phase modulation; pulse-to-continuous-wave conversion; return-to-zero pulse generation; spectral line-by-line pulse shaping; time-domain waveforms; wavelength conversion; wavelength tuning; width tuning; Frequency conversion; Masers; Microwave generation; Optical frequency conversion; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse shaping methods; Wavelength conversion; Line-by-line pulse shaping; optical processing; phase modulator;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2006.876716

Filename

1643357