Photonic generation of arbitrary waveforms based on incoherent wavelength-to-time mapping

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/6/068401

Abstract We demonstrate experimentally a radio frequency arbitrary waveform generator using the incoherent wavelength-to-time mapping technique. The system is implemented by amplitude modulation of a broadband optical resource whose spectrum is reshaped by a programmable optical pulse shaper and transmitted over a single mode fiber link. The shape of the generated waveform is controlled by the optical pulse shaper, and the fiber link introduces a certain group velocity delay to implement wavelength-to-time mapping. Assisted by the flexible optical pulse shaper, we obtain different shapes of optical waveforms, such as rectangle, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms. Furthermore, we also demonstrate ultra-wideband generation, such as Gaussian monocycle, doublet, and triplet waveforms, using the incoherent technique.

Keywords: arbitrary waveform generation ultra-wideband wavelength-to-time mapping incoherent technique

Received: 29 August 2011
Revised: 29 November 2011
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PACS:	84.40.-x	(Radiowave and microwave (including millimeter wave) technology)
	42.79.Sz	(Optical communication systems, multiplexers, and demultiplexers?)
	47.27.De	(Coherent structures)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB301704), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60901006 and 11174096), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant No. 2010QN033).

Corresponding Authors: Dong Jian-Ji
E-mail: jjdong@mail.hust.edu.cn

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Dong Jian-Ji(董建绩), Luo Bo-Wen(罗博文), Yu Yuan(于源), and Zhang Xin-Liang(张新亮) Photonic generation of arbitrary waveforms based on incoherent wavelength-to-time mapping 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 068401

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