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Use of a SLALOM as an optical frequency multiplier and pulse compressor
Author(s) -
Hong Xiaobin,
Lin Jintong
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2760(20000205)24:3<187::aid-mop13>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - pulse (music) , gas compressor , optics , bandwidth limited pulse , microwave , pulse width modulation , amplifier , laser , pulse compression , physics , optical amplifier , electrical engineering , materials science , ultrashort pulse , engineering , telecommunications , bandwidth (computing) , voltage , thermodynamics , radar , detector
Abstract A SLALOM (semiconductor laser amplifier in the loop mirror) for optical frequency multiplication and pulse compression is presented theoretically. The influence of the relatively slow turn‐on transition of the SLA and the window size to the switching window is discussed, and is neglected, instead of the sudden step for the transition in the short control pulse case in a previous paper 1. We make use of the two windows, which are created by the appropriate parameters of the proposed configuration, to multiply the optical pulse rate in the relatively long control pulse case. When the second window disappears in the short control pulse case, the device can be used as a pulse compressor. Analysis demonstrates that the 10 Gbit/s optical clock signal can be doubled to 20 Gbits/s, and a 100 ps pulse can be compressed to 34 ps at a rate of 2.5 Gbits/s with this device. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 24: 187–191, 2000.