Title :
A programmable on-chip ultrashort-pulse shaper using a micromachined actuator array and a chirped fiber Bragg grating
Author :
Liao, Kai-Hsiu ; Udeshi, Kabir ; Que, Long ; Gianchandani, Yogesh B. ; Galvanauskas, Almantas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
A compact on-chip ultrashort-pulse shaper is demonstrated using fiber gratings and micromachined electro-thermal actuators. Programmable arbitrary-waveform generation can be achieved in a large time window form ∼10-ps to ∼1-ns with femtosecond or picosecond optical pulses.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; microactuators; optical arrays; optical fibres; optical pulse shaping; chirped fiber Bragg grating; micromachined electro-thermal actuators; programmable on-chip ultrashort-pulse shaper; Actuators; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Pulse shaping methods; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202434
