Tunable Lattice-Form Mach–Zehnder Interferometer for Arbitrary Binary Code Generation at 40 GHz

Author

Samadi, Payman ; Kostko, Irina A. ; Jain, Apurva ; Shia, Brian ; Callender, Claire L. ; Dumais, Patrick ; Jacob, Sarkis ; Chen, Lawrence R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

Volume

28

Issue

21

fYear

2010

Firstpage

3070

Lastpage

3078

Abstract

We use the direct temporal domain approach to design spectrally periodic optical filters for pulse repetition rate multiplication (PRRM) with envelope shaping. In particular, we demonstrate a tunable lattice-form Mach-Zehnder interferometer using Silica-based planar lightwave circuit (PLC) for arbitrary 4-bit binary amplitude code generation at 40 GHz and to increase the repetition rate of a 10 GHz input pulse train to 20 GHz or 40 GHz. In addition to PRRM and envelope shaping, the device also has the capability of arbitrary phase coding.

Keywords

light interferometers; optical filters; optical lattices; 4-bit binary amplitude code generation; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; arbitrary binary code generation; arbitrary phase coding; direct temporal domain approach; envelope shaping; frequency 40 GHz; input pulse train; planar lightwave circuit; pulse repetition rate multiplication; spectrally periodic optical filters; tunable lattice-form; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Couplers; Filtering theory; Finite impulse response filter; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Arbitrary binary code generation; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical arbitrary waveform generation; planar lightwave circuits; pulse repetition rate multiplication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2072773

Filename

5560687