The distributed Bragg pulse shaper: demonstration and model

Author

Purchase, Ken G. ; Brady, David J. ; Roh, S. David ; Lammert, R.M. ; Osowski, M.L. ; Coleman, James J. ; Hughes, John S.

Author_Institution

Lightwave Microsyst., Santa Clara, CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

621

Lastpage

628

Abstract

The distributed Bragg pulse shaper (DBPS) is a series of electrically switchable Bragg mirrors on a semiconductor waveguide. The DBPS encodes data packets using parallel electrical signals to set the states of the Bragg mirrors. A broad-band source pulse then probes the device to generate a high bandwidth serial wavepacket from the train of partially reflecting mirrors. This paper describes a DBPS constructed in AlGaAs. Using this device and a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser, we create a 4-bit packet with 0.37 Tb/s burst bit rate and are demonstrate for the first time that bits in the wavepacket can be switched by electrical modulation of individual Bragg segments. We also describe a model collaborating the observed data

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; electro-optical switches; encoding; gallium arsenide; laser mode locking; mirrors; optical pulse shaping; reflectivity; 0.37 Tbit/s; AlGaAs; Bragg mirrors; Tb/s burst bit rate; broad-band source pulse; data encoding; distributed Bragg pulse shaper model; electrical modulation; electrically switchable Bragg mirrors; high bandwidth serial wavepacket; individual Bragg segments; mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser; parallel electrical signals; partially reflecting mirrors; semiconductor waveguide; wavepacket switching; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Collaboration; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Packet switching; Probes; Pulse shaping methods; Semiconductor waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.754792

Filename

754792