Title :
Demonstration of dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation with 5-ns record lengths and 33-ps features
Author :
Scott, Ryan P. ; Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Geisler, David J. ; He, Tingting ; Heritage, Jonathan P. ; Yoo, S.J.B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate bandwidth-scalable, high-fidelity dynamic arbitrary optical waveforms with 30-GHz of bandwidth by coherently combining three 10-GHz spectral slices generated with just 5.5 GHz of electrical bandwidth per I/Q modulator signal.
Keywords :
optical modulation; optical pulse shaping; I/Q modulator signal; bandwidth 30 GHz; bandwidth 5.5 GHz; coherent combination; dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation; electrical bandwidth; frequency 10 GHz; spectral slices; time 33 ps; time 5 ns; Adaptive optics; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical pulse shaping; Time frequency analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4