Simultaneous temporal characterization of telecommunication optical pulses and modulators by use of spectrograms

C Dorrer, I Kang - Optics Letters, 2002 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a simple technique for simultaneous and complete characterization of the
optical pulses and temporal modulators commonly used in telecommunication. The electric …

Time‐to‐frequency converter for measuring picosecond optical pulses

MT Kauffman, WC Banyai, AA Godil… - Applied physics letters, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new technique for measuring the intensity I (t) of optical pulses using a
temporal optical system. A diffraction grating pair followed by a microwave‐driven, optical …

Simple method for the complete characterization of an optical pulse

J Debeau, B Kowalski, R Boittin - Optics letters, 1998 - opg.optica.org
A novel and simple method to measure the amplitude and the phase of optical pulses is
presented. The technique basically involves modulating the optical pulse train in a particular …

Picosecond and subpicosecond optoelectronics for measurements of future high speed electronic devices

JA Valdmanis, GA Mourou… - … Electron Devices Meeting, 1983 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The electrooptic effect has been used in conjunction with 100 fs optical pulses to sample
electrical transients with an unprecedented resolution of. 5 ps and sensitivity of 50-100 µV …

Characterization of arbitrary femtosecond pulses using frequency-resolved optical gating

DJ Kane, R Trebino - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) technique for characterizing and displaying
arbitrary femtosecond pulses is presented. The method is simple, general, broadband, and …

Time evolution of picosecond optical pulses

WH Glenn, MJ Brienza - Applied physics letters, 1967 - pubs.aip.org
A high-speed energy correlation technique has been used to measure the time development
of the width of the ultrashort pulses generated by a mode-locked Nd+3 glass laser. The laser …

Time-lens-based spectral analysis of optical pulses by electrooptic phase modulation

NK Berger, B Levit, S Atkins, B Fischer - Electronics Letters, 2000 - search.proquest.com
In this paper, the authors present a first experimental demonstration of time-lens-based
operation by electrooptic phase modulation to perform real-time spectral analysis of optical …

Optical generation of intense picosecond electrical pulses

DH Auston, AM Glass - Applied Physics Letters, 1972 - pubs.aip.org
~ lec~ rical pul! es, 4!" in 1 0 psec, have been generated by rectification of 1. 06-~ m pulses
In. LlTaO:!:. Cu. Thelr amplitude and duration were measured by photographing the …

Real-time implementation of linear spectrograms for the characterization of high bit-rate optical pulse trains

C Dorrer, I Kang - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate the first real-time implementation of linear spectrograms for the complete
characterization of a train of optical pulses. The spectrogram is composed of the spectra of …

[PDF][PDF] Time magnification of electrical signals using chirped optical pulses

F Coppinger, AS Bhushan, B Jalali - Electronics Letters, 1998 - scholar.archive.org
The authors report a method for stretching electrical signals in time. A high chirp rate is
imposed on the electrical signal by mixing it with a dispersed ultra-short optical pulse in an …