Title :
Tunable passive optical pulse repetition rate multiplier
Author :
Pudo, Dominik ; Chen, Lawrence R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
We demonstrate a tunable all-optical repetition rate multiplier based on the temporal Talbot effect. An 8.62 GHz input pulse train is reflected from a cascade of 1 to 4 linearly chirped Bragg gratings, resulting in repetition rate multiplication factors of 3 to 12.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Talbot effect; high-speed optical techniques; optical design techniques; optical tuning; 8.62 GHz; grating design; optical pulse repetition rate multiplier; passive pulse repetition rate multiplier; temporal Talbot effect; tunable pulse repetition rate multiplier; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Delay; Dispersion; Fiber gratings; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical switches; Space vector pulse width modulation; Talbot effect;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363378
