Time domain parabolic pulse creation of ultrafast chirped pulses

Dat Nguyen; Mohammad Umar Piracha; Dimitrios Mandridis; Peter J. Delfyett Jr.; Michael Greenberg; Michael Mielke; Tim Booth

doi:10.1117/12.852731

21 April 2010 Time domain parabolic pulse creation of ultrafast chirped pulses

Dat Nguyen, Mohammad Umar Piracha, Dimitrios Mandridis, Peter J. Delfyett Jr., Michael Greenberg, Michael Mielke, Tim Booth

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Proceedings Volume 7700, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications VI; 77000J (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852731
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The generation of optical pulses with parabolic time intensity profiles is experimentally demonstrated. A Mode Locked Laser (MLL) that generates near transform limited pulses with a gaussian optical spectrum are temporally stretched using a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating. The temporal intensity profile of the stretched pulses matches the optical spectrum of the laser due to frequency-to-time mapping. An amplitude modulator is driven by a carefully designed voltage signal to result in parabolic pulses. Experimental results of pulse shaping with a MLL input source are presented, and show good agreement with modeling results. Parabolic pulse generation using a CW laser source is also demonstrated and a deviation of less than 3% from an ideal parabola is observed.

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Dat Nguyen, Mohammad Umar Piracha, Dimitrios Mandridis, Peter J. Delfyett Jr., Michael Greenberg, Michael Mielke, and Tim Booth "Time domain parabolic pulse creation of ultrafast chirped pulses", Proc. SPIE 7700, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications VI, 77000J (21 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852731

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