Title :
A broadband, spectrally flat, high rep-rate frequency comb: Bandwidth scaling and flatness enhancement of phase modulated CW through cascaded four-wave mixing
Author :
Supradeepa, V.R. ; Weiner, Andrew M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a scheme to scale the bandwidth by several times while enhancing spectral flatness of frequency combs generated by intensity and phase modulation of CW lasers using cascaded four-wave mixing in highly nonlinear fiber.
Keywords :
bandwidth allocation; lasers; multiwave mixing; optical fibres; optical modulation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; phase modulation; bandwidth scaling; broadband frequency comb; cascaded four-wave mixing; continuous wave laser; flatness enhancement; high rep-rate frequency comb; nonlinear fiber; phase modulated continuous wave; phase modulation; spectrally flat frequency comb; Bandwidth; Frequency modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
