Multiwavelength ultrashort pulse generator using a diverging time-lens

Xiangyu Jiang; Li Huo; Dong Wang; Xin Chen; Caiyun Lou

doi:10.1117/1.OE.54.12.126107

17 December 2015 Multiwavelength ultrashort pulse generator using a diverging time-lens

Xiangyu Jiang, Li Huo, Dong Wang, Xin Chen, Caiyun Lou

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 54, Issue 12, 126107 (December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.12.126107

Abstract

A self-starting optoelectronic oscillator that employs a diverging time lens and a Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) in a fiber-extended cavity to generate a multiwavelength ultrashort pulse train is demonstrated. The switching window formed by the MZM is narrowed by the use of a diverging time lens, which is a phase modulator in our study. A wavelength assignment scheme is deployed to simultaneously suppress the pedestals of pulses on different wavelengths. A detailed analysis is given, and the results are presented by experiment. We have generated 25 GHz optical pulses simultaneously on four wavelengths as a proof-of-concept demonstration. The pulse width of the optical pulse, the phase noise, and the timing jitter performance of the generated microwave signal are experimentally measured.

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Xiangyu Jiang, Li Huo, Dong Wang, Xin Chen, and Caiyun Lou "Multiwavelength ultrashort pulse generator using a diverging time-lens," Optical Engineering 54(12), 126107 (17 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.12.126107

Published: 17 December 2015

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