Nonlinearity-based all-optical sampling of ultrahigh-bandwidth optical signals
Paper i proceeding, 2004

We demonstrate an all-optical waveform sampling system with simultaneous sub-mW optical signal sensitivity (20 dB SNR) and sub-picosecond temporal resolution over more than 60 nm optical bandwidth. The optical sampling was implemented by four-wave mixing in a 10 m highly nonlinear fiber using a sampling pulse source with a sampling pulse peak power of only 16 W. The sampling performance was evaluated in terms of sensitivity, temporal resolution and optical bandwidth with respect to fiber length, sampling pulse source wavelength offset from the zero-dispersion wavelength of the highly nonlinear fiber, sampling pulse peak power and walk-off due to chromatic dispersion. We also present a summary of the available methods to achieve polarization-independent optical sampling.

Författare

Peter Andrekson

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Mathias Westlund

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Henrik Sunnerud

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Jonas Hansryd

Mocean Labs

Jie Li

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Fotonik

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

0277786X (ISSN) 1996756X (eISSN)

Vol. 5596 319-331 36

Ämneskategorier

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1117/12.569571

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