Higher order repetition rate multiplication for multiwavelength pulsed source

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 466-468

  Fok, Mable P ^a   Tang, W W ^a   Shu, Chester ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Birefringence loop mirror filter (LMF); Multiwavelength pulsed source; Repetition rate multiplication; Spectral elimination

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FILTERS;

BIREFRINGENCE LOOP MIRROR FILTER; MULTIWAVELENGTH PULSED SOURCE; REPETITION RATE MULTIPLICATION; SPECTRAL ELIMINATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 31344475137     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.863209     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. E. Ciaramella, G. Contestabile, A. D'Errico, C. Loiacono, and M. Presi, "High-power widely tunable 40-GHz pulse source for 160-Gb/s OTDM systems based on nonlinear fiber effects," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 753-755, Mar. 2004.
2. K. S. Lee and C. Shu, "Optical loop mirror multiplexer," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1444-1446, Dec. 1995.
3. J. H. Lee, Y. M. Chang, Y. G. Han, S. H. Kim, and S. B. Lee, "2-5 times tunable repetition rate multiplication of a 10 GHz pulse source using a linearly tunable, chirped fiber Bragg grating," Opt. Express, vol. 12, no. 17, pp. 3900-3905, Aug. 2004.
4. N. K. Berger, B. Levit, S. Atkins, and B. Fischer, "Repetition rate multiplication of optical pulses using uniform fiber Bragg gratings," Opt. Commun., vol. 221, pp. 331-335, 2003.
5. R. Slavík and S. LaRochelle, "Design of 10-to-40 GHz and higher pulse-rate multiplication by means of coupled Fabry-Pérot resonators," Opt. Commun., vol. 247, pp. 307-312, 2005.
6. T. Sizer II, "Increase in laser repetition rate by spectral selection," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 97-103, Jan. 1989.
7. K. Yiannopoulos, K. Vyrsokinos, D. Tsiokos, E. Kehayas, N. Pleros, G. Theophilopoulos, T. Houbavlis, G. Guekos, and H. Avramopoulos, "Pulse repetition frequency multiplication with spectral selection in Fabry-Pérot filters," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 157-165, Feb. 2004.
8. M. P. Fok, W. W. Tang, and C. Shu, "Repetition rate multiplication of multi-wavelength pulses by spectral elimination with a birefringence loop mirror filter," Opt. Express, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 4752-4758, Jun. 2005.
9. X. Fang, H. Ji, C. T. Allen, K. Demarest, and L. Pelz, "A compound high-order polarization-independent birefringence filter using Sagnac interferometers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 458-460, Apr. 1997.