Title :
Pulse Distortions Due to Third-Order Dispersion and Dispersion Mismatches in a Phase-Modulator-Based Temporal Pulse Shaping System
Author :
Li, Ze ; Chi, Hao ; Zhang, Xianmin ; Yao, Jianping
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
An analysis on pulse distortions due to the third-order dispersion (TOD) and dispersion mismatches in a phase-modulator- (PM) based temporal pulse shaping (TPS) system for the generation of a repetition-rate-multiplied pulse burst is performed. We demonstrate that the profile of a repetition-rate-multiplied pulse burst and the shape of the individual pulses in the pulse burst are distorted due to the TOD and the dispersion mismatches of the dispersive elements. The tolerance of the system to the TOD and the dispersion mismatches when employing an input optical pulse with different pulsewidth is studied. A technique to use predistortion of the RF modulation signal to tackle the pulse distortions is discussed.
Keywords :
optical dispersion; optical distortion; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; phase modulation; RF modulation signal; dispersion mismatches; optical pulse; phase-modulator-based temporal pulse shaping system; pulse distortions; repetition-rate-multiplied pulse burst generation; third-order dispersion; Correlation; Dispersion; Filtering; Modulation; Optical distortion; Optical pulses; Radio frequency; Arbitrary waveform generation (AWG); Fourier transform; pulse repetition rate multiplication (PRRM); temporal pulse shaping (TPS);
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2010.2069553
