This paper presents a tutorial on the field of femtosecond pulse shaping, a technology that
enables generation of nearly arbitrary, user defined, ultrafast optical waveforms, with control …

Optical arbitrary waveform generation will allow waveforms to be synthesized at optical
frequencies but with the flexibility currently available at radiofrequencies. This technique is …

Radio-frequency (RF) waveform synthesis has broad applications in ultrawide-bandwidth
wireless communications, radar systems, and electronic testing. Photonic-based …

Controlling the temporal waveform of light is the key to a versatile light source in classical
and quantum electronics. Although pulse shaping of classical light is mature and has been …

The so-called space-time analogy constitutes a source of inspiration to understand,
engineer, and implement new systems for ultrafast optical signal processing based on …

This paper discusses the realization of terabit per second high speed and high spectral-
efficiency optical transmissions using much lower speed electronics and optoelectronics …

We demonstrate an optical transmitter based on dynamic optical arbitrary waveform
generation (OAWG) which is capable of creating high-bandwidth (THz) data waveforms in …

Controlling the temporal and spectral properties of light is crucial for many applications.
Current state-of-the-art techniques for shaping the time-and/or frequency-domain field of an …

We demonstrate that the optical Fourier transform and cyclic prefix in an all-optical OFDM
transmitter can be simultaneously implemented using a liquid crystal on silicon wavelength …

We propose and demonstrate an optical arbitrary waveform generator and high-order
photonic differentiator based on a four-tap finite impulse response (FIR) silicon-on-insulator …