• DocumentCode
    1831753
  • Title

    Flat-top pulse generation using 3-dB abrupt taper interferometeric pulse shaper

  • Author

    Nix, Michael ; Yam, Scott S H

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Using a novel and inexpensive 204 mm long 3 dB abrupt taper pulse shaper, a 3.8 ps flat-top pulse with less than 4% ripple was generated from a 2.2 ps Gaussian pulse.
  • Keywords
    optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; Gaussian pulse; flat-top pulse generation; taper interferometeric pulse shaper; Interferometers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical refraction; Pulse generation; Pulse shaping methods; (070.2615) Frequency filtering; (320.5540) Pulse shaping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032929