Serrodyne frequency translation of continuous optical signals using ultrawide-band electrical sawtooth waveforms

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1533-1539

  Poberezhskiy, Ilya Y ^a,b   Bortnik, Bartosz ^a   Chou, Jason ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a   Fetterman, Harold R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulation; Optical frequency conversion; Optical pulse shaping; Phase modulation; Signal synthesis

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTROOPTIC MODULATION; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; SIGNAL SYNTHESIS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 29244490330     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.858467     Document Type: Article

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