Title :
Generation of programmable passband chirped electrical pulses using optical interferometry
Author :
Rashidinejad, Amir ; Weiner, Andrew M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
We present a novel optical interferometric strategy to generate arbitrary linear/nonlinear frequency-chirped electrical pulses with widely tunable center frequency. The Time-Bandwidth Product of these waveforms is twice that of current counterpart techniques.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; laser tuning; light interferometry; optical pulse generation; arbitrary linear frequency-chirped electrical pulse generation; arbitrary nonlinear frequency-chirped electrical pulse generation; optical interferometry; programmable passband chirped electrical pulse generation; waveform time-bandwidth product; widely tunable center frequency; Chirp; High-speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse shaping; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
