Long-period fiber-grating-based filter for generation of picosecond and subpicosecond transform-limited flat-top pulses
Long-period fiber-grating-based filter for generation of picosecond and subpicosecond transform-limited flat-top pulses
We suggest and demonstrate an all-fiber pulse shaper for synthesizing transform-limited flat-top waveforms. The proposed scheme can be easily scaled down to the (sub-)picosecond regime while offering low polarization dependence and extremely low insertion loss. It is based on a cascade of two long-period fiber gratings. As a proof-of-concept experiment, we report the generation of transform-limited flat-top pulses with full-width at half-maximum duration of 2 ps, which is over two times faster than the shortest transform-limited flat-top pulse ever generated with an all-fiber filter.
Gratings, Optical fiber filters, Optical pulse shaping, Passive filters
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Slavík, Radan
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Park, Yongwoo
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Azaña, Jose
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15 May 2008
Slavík, Radan
2591726a-ecc0-4d1a-8e1d-4d0fd8da8f7d
Park, Yongwoo
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Azaña, Jose
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Slavík, Radan, Park, Yongwoo and Azaña, Jose
(2008)
Long-period fiber-grating-based filter for generation of picosecond and subpicosecond transform-limited flat-top pulses.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 20 (10), .
(doi:10.1109/LPT.2008.921131).
Abstract
We suggest and demonstrate an all-fiber pulse shaper for synthesizing transform-limited flat-top waveforms. The proposed scheme can be easily scaled down to the (sub-)picosecond regime while offering low polarization dependence and extremely low insertion loss. It is based on a cascade of two long-period fiber gratings. As a proof-of-concept experiment, we report the generation of transform-limited flat-top pulses with full-width at half-maximum duration of 2 ps, which is over two times faster than the shortest transform-limited flat-top pulse ever generated with an all-fiber filter.
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Published date: 15 May 2008
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This work was supported by the Grant Agency of AS CR under Contract KJB200670601 and by the Czech Science Foundation under Contract 102/07/0999. R. Slavík is with the Institute of Photonics and Electronics, AS CR, 182 51 Prague, Czech Republic (e-mail: slavik@ufe.cz). Y. Park and J. Azaña are with the Institut National de la Recherche Scien-tifique (INRS), Montréal, Québec H5A 1K6, Canada (e-mail: azana@emt.inrs. ca). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this letter are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LPT.2008.921131 Fig. 1. Schematics of the LPFG-based common path interferometer for flat-top pulse shaping. The light is split by the first LPFG, then propagates in the core and cladding modes with different speeds and is superimposed coherently using the second LPFG.
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Gratings, Optical fiber filters, Optical pulse shaping, Passive filters
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Local EPrints ID: 456661
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/456661
ISSN: 1041-1135
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Radan Slavík
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Yongwoo Park
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