Title :
Temporal response of an excitation engineered 1×16 splitter
Author :
Leaird, D.E. ; Weiner, A.M. ; Saida, T. ; Sugita, A. ; Okamoto, K.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The temporal response of a funnel-type 1×16 splitter is investigated. Improper input alignment is shown to generate temporal satellite pulses which could negatively impact excitation-engineered splitters for future very-high repetition rate pulse train generators.
Keywords :
arrayed waveguide gratings; optical beam splitters; optical pulse generation; excitation engineered splitter; high repetition rate pulse train generators; temporal response; temporal satellite pulses generation; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Insertion loss; Loss measurement; Optical arrays; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulse generation; Optical waveguides; Power measurement; Slabs; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7888-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1253016
