Chirped microwave pulse generation based on optical spectral shaping and wavelength-to-time mapping using a sagnac loop mirror incorporating a chirped fiber bragg grating

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 3336-3341

  Wang, Chao ^a   Yao, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chirped microwave pulse; Dispersion; Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Optical pulse shaping; Sagnac loop mirror; Wavelength to time mapping

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL FREQUENCY; CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; CHIRPED MICROWAVE PULSE; DISPERSIVE ELEMENTS; FIBER BRAGG GRATING (FBG); FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH-SPEED; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL POWER SPECTRUM; OPTICAL PULSE; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; PULSE SHAPES; SAGNAC LOOP FILTER; SAGNAC LOOP MIRROR; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SPECTRAL SHAPING; TUNABLE CHIRP; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; POWER SPECTRUM; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 68349139411     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2010561     Document Type: Article

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