Broadband photonic arbitrary waveform generation using a frequency agile laser at 1.5µm
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Damon, Vianney; Crozatier, Vincent; Chaneliere, Thierry; Gouet, Jean-Louis Le; Lorgere, Ivan
- Source
- CLEO/QELS: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2010
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Frequency
Optical filters
Optical pulse generation
Chirp
Optical pulse compression
Bandwidth
Nonlinear optics
Optical mixing
Telecommunications
Particle beam optics
- Language
We use a pulse-compression chirp-transform algorithm to generate broadband photonic arbitrary waveforms. A phase-locked loop frequency agile laser provides the needed broadband frequency scans. The experiment operates at the telecom wavelength of 1.5µm.