Fiber-based programmable picosecond optical pulse shaper

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1832-1843

  Thomas, Saju ^a   Malacarne, Antonio ^a,b   Fresi, Francesco ^b   Potì, Luca ^c   Azaña, José ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromatic dispersion compensation; Genetic algorithm; Optical pulse shaping; Processing of ultrashort optical pulses; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY TIME; BINARY PHASE; BINARY SIGNALS; ELECTRO-OPTIC PHASE; FAST COMPUTATION; FEASIBLE DESIGN; FILTERING FUNCTIONS; GERCHBERG-SAXTON ALGORITHM; INHERENT SYMMETRY; INTENSITY PROFILES; LINEAR FILTERING; MULTI-LEVEL; ON TIME; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPERS; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECONDS; PULSE SHAPES; TEMPORAL SHAPE; TEMPORAL WAVEFORMS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSE;

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FILTRATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77953092953     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2048700     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. A. M. Weiner, "Femtosecond pulse shaping using spatial light modulators," Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol.71, no.5, pp. 1929-1960, 2000.
2. A. M. Weiner, S. Oudin, D. E. Leaird, and D. H. Reitze, "Shaping of femtosecond pulses using phase-only filters designed by simulated annealing," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol.10, no.5, pp. 1112-1120, 1993.
3. L. K. Oxenløwe, R. Slavik, M. Galili, H. C. H. Mulvad, A. T. Clausen, Y. Park, J. Azaña, and P. Jeppesen, "640 Gb/s timing jitter-tolerant data processing using a long-period fiber-grating-based flat-top pulse shaper," IEEE J. Selec. Top. Quantum Electron., vol.14, no.3, pp. 566-572, 2008.
4. F. Parmigiani, P. Petropoulos, M. Ibsen, P. J. Almeida, T. T. Ng, and D. J. Richardson, "Time domain add-drop multiplexing scheme enhanced using a saw-tooth pulse shaper," Opt. Exp., vol.17, no.10, pp. 8362-8369, 2009.
5. J. P. Heritage and A. M. Weiner, "Advances in spectral optical codedivision multiple-access communications," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., vol.13, no.5, pp. 1351-1369, 2007.
6. E. Frumker, E. Tal, Y. Silberberg, and D. Majer, "Femtosecond pulseshape modulation at nanosecond rates," Opt. Lett., vol.30, no.20, pp. 2796-2798, 2005.
7. D. Meshulach and Y. Silberberg, "Coherent quantum control of twophoton transitions by a femtosecond laser pulse," Nature, vol.396, pp. 239-242, 1998.
8. N. Dudovich, D. Oron, and Y. Silberberg, "Single-pulse coherently controlled nonlinear Raman spectroscopy and microscopy," Nature, vol.418, pp. 512-514, 2002.
9. S. Thomas, A. Malacarne, F. Fresi, L. Potì, A. Bogoni, and J. Azaña, "Programmable fiber-based picosecond optical pulse shaper using time-domain binary phase-only linear filtering," Opt. Lett., vol.34, no.4, pp. 545-547, 2009.
10. J. Azaña, N. K. Berger, B. Levit, and B. Fischer, "Reconfigurable generation of high-repetition-rate optical pulse sequences based on timedomain phase-only filtering," Opt. Lett., vol.30, no.23, pp. 3228-3230, 2005.
11. R. E. Saperstein and Y. Fainman, "Information processing with longitudinal spectral decomposition of ultrafast pulses," Appl. Opt., vol.47, no.4, pp. A21-A31, 2008.
12. D. Zeidler, S. Frey, K.-L. Kompa, and M. Motzkus, "Evolutionary algorithms and their application to optimal control studies," Phys. Rev. A, vol.64, p. 023420, 2001.
13. R. L. Haupt and S. E. Haupt, Practical Genetic Algorithms, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 2004.
14. B. H. Kolner, "Space-time duality and the theory of temporal imaging," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol.30, no.8, pp. 1951-1963, 1994.
15. J. van Howe and C. Xu, "Ultrafast optical signal processing based upon space-time dualities," J. Lightw. Technol., vol.24, no.7, pp. 2649-2662, 2006.
16. A. M. Weiner, D. E. Leaird, J. S. Patel, and J. R. Wullert, "Programmable femtosecond pulse shaping by use of a multielement liquid-crystal phase modulator," Opt. Lett., vol.15, no.6, pp. 326-328, 1990.
17. C. W. Hillegas, J. X. Tull, D. Goswami, D. Strickland, and W. S. Warren, "Femtosecond laser pulse shaping by use of microsecond radio-frequency pulses," Opt. Lett., vol.19, no.10, pp. 737-739, 1994.
18. E. Zeek, K. Maginnis, S. Backus, U. Russek, M. Murnane, G. Mourou, and H. Kapteyn, "Pulse compression by use of deformable mirrors," Opt. Lett., vol.24, no.7, pp. 493-495, 1999.
19. C. Huang, D. E. Leaird, and A. M. Weiner, "Time-multiplexed photonically enabled radio-frequency arbitrary waveform generation with 100 ps transitions," Opt. Lett., vol.32, no.22, pp. 3242-3244, 2007.
20. R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, C. Yang, D. J. Geisler, K. Okamoto, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Rapid updating of optical arbitrary waveforms via time-domain multiplexing," Opt. Lett., vol.33, no.13, pp. 1068-1070, 2008.
21. M. Hacker, G. Stobrawa, and T. Feurer, "Iterative Fourier transform algorithm for phase-only pulse shaping," Opt. Exp., vol.9, no.4, pp. 191-199, 2001.
22. A. Rundquist, A. Efimov, and D. H. Reitze, "Pulse shaping with the Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol.19, no.10, pp. 2468-2478, 2002.
23. R. W. Gerchberg and W. O. Saxton, "A practical algorithm for the determination of phase from image and diffraction plane pictures," Optik, vol.35, pp. 237-246, 1972.
24. J. R. Fienup, "Phase retrieval algorithms: A comparison," Appl. Opt., vol.21, no.15, pp. 2758-2769, 1982.
25. S. Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, Jr., and M. P. Vecchi, "Optimization by simulated anealing," Science, vol.220, pp. 671-680, 1983.
26. J. Azana, "Design specifications of time-domain spectral shaping optical system based on dispersion and temporal modulation," Electron. Lett., vol.39, no.21, pp. 1530-1532, 2003.
27. H. Chi and J. Yao, "Waveform distortions due to second-order dispersion and dispersion mismatches in a temporal pulse-shaping system," J. Lightw. Technol., vol.25, no.11, pp. 3528-3535, 2007.
28. A. Malacarne, S. Thomas, F. Fresi, L. Poti, A. Bogoni, and J. Azana, "Demonstration of a programmable all-fibre optical pulse shaper exploiting a single LC-FBG as pre- and post-dispersive medium," in Proc. IEEE LEOS 2008, Nov. 9-13, 2008, Paper ThW3.
29. F. Fresi, A. Chiuchiarelli, A. Malacarne, L. Poti, and A. Bogoni, "640 Gb/s RZ eye-diagram evaluation by optical sampling oscilloscope w/o post-processing and ms refresh time," presented at CLEO/QELS 2008, May 4-9, 2008.
30. J. Kim, J. Bae, Y.-G. Han, S. H. Kim, J.-M. Jeong, and S. B. Lee, "Effectively tunable dispersion compensation based on chirped fiber Bragg gratings without central wavelength shift," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.16, no.3, pp. 849-851, 2004.
31. M. Westlund, H. Sunnerud, B.-E. Olsson, and P. A. Andrekson, "Simple scheme for polarization-independent all-optical sampling," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.16, no.9, pp. 2108-2110, 2004.