Title :
Broadband, spectrally flat frequency combs and short pulse sources from phase modulated CW: Bandwidth scaling and flatness enhancement using cascaded FWM
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 :
multiwave mixing; optical fibres; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; phase modulation; bandwidth scaling; broadband; cascaded FWM; cascaded four wave mixing; flatness enhancement; highly nonlinear fiber; phase modulated CW; short pulse sources; spectrally flat frequency combs; Bandwidth; Frequency modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Phase modulation; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
