Super wide span optical frequency comb generation by nonlinear self-phase-modulation in an optical fiber

Author

Kourogi, M. ; Imai, K. ; Widiatmoko, B. ; Ohtsu, M.

Author_Institution

Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

11-13 Aug. 1997

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

24

Abstract

In summary, expansion of the optical frequency comb (OFC) span was realized by applying self-phase modulation, and the resulted span of the OFC was 47THz. The OFC is based on an electro-optical modulator enclosed in a high finesse optical cavity driven by microwaves with a constant frequency, generating more than one thousand equally spaced sidebands on large frequency span as wide as several THz from a cw laser light.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; microwave generation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibres; optical modulation; optical resonators; phase modulation; semiconductor lasers; 47 THz; constant frequency; cw laser light; electro-optical modulator; equally spaced sidebands; high finesse optical cavity; large frequency span; microwaves; nonlinear self-phase-modulation; optical fiber; optical frequency comb span; self-phase modulation; super wide span optical frequency comb generation; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Masers; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Scanning probe microscopy; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vertical-Cavity Lasers, Technologies for a Global Information Infrastructure, WDM Components Technology, Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Applications, Gallium Nitride Materials, Processing, and Devi

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que., Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3891-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.1997.619202

Filename

619202