Spectrally Equalized Frequency Comb Generation in Multistage Parametric Mixer With Nonlinear Pulse Shaping

被引：92

作者：

Ataie, Vahid ^{[1
]}

Myslivets, Evgeny ^{[1
]}

Kuo, Bill P. -P. ^{[1
]}

Alic, Nikola ^{[1
]}

Radic, Stojan ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY | 2014年 / 32卷 / 04期

关键词：

Parametric process; nonlinear pulse shaping; optical frequency comb;

D O I：

10.1109/JLT.2013.2287852

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

A novel approach to improve the flatness of wideband parametric frequency combs is presented. The method relies on nonlinear pulse shaping prior to parametric mixing in a comb-generating device. The parametric comb is generated in a cavity-less multistage shock-wave mixer, using continuous-wave (CW) laser as comb seed. The pulse shaping is accomplished in a regenerative stage incorporating nonlinear optical/amplifying loop mirror (NOLM/NALM) and provides near-ideal seeds for spectrally equalized frequency comb generation in the output mixing stage. The new technique was implemented separately on two comb generators with a coarse (100 GHz) and dense (10 GHz) tone spacing. A 4 dB flatness over 100 nm is achieved with wide-pitched comb, while the fine-pitched device yielded 1500 tones and possessed sub-2 dB spectral flatness over 120 nm bandwidth.

引用

页码：840 / 846

页数：7

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