Complete pulse characterization at 1.5 /spl mu/m using the Kerr nonlinearity in optical fibers

Author

Thomson, M.D. ; Dudley, J.M. ; Barry, L.P. ; Harvey, J.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Auckland Univ., New Zealand

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

193

Abstract

Summary form only given. Frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) is rapidly becoming a routine measurement technique for the complete characterization of ultrashort light pulses. We show that complete pulse characterization can be achieved using the Kerr nonlinearity in optical fibers to generate a FROG-like spectrogram, from which the pulse intensity and phase can be retrieved using the standard FROG algorithm based on generalized projections.

Keywords

Michelson interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre testing; FROG; FROG-like spectrogram; Kerr nonlinearity; complete pulse characterization; frequency-resolved optical gating; generalized projections; ptical fibers; pulse intensity; routine measurement technique; standard FROG algorithm; ultrashort light pulses; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Optimized production technology; Polarization; Pulse measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676040

Filename

676040