Compression of periodic light pulses using all-optical repetition rate multiplication

摘要

We propose a novel method for compression of periodic optical pulses based on all-optical repetition rate multiplication of pulses without requiring propagation in a dispersive delay line. The compression principle is explained using the temporal Talbot effect. The proposed method is demonstrated experimentally with the generation of similar to20 ps pulses from cw radiation of a laser diode. The repetition rate multiplication is performed with fiber Bragg gratings. The proposed method simultaneously implements two important requirements of many fields, for example, of optical communications: pulse compression and pulse repetition rate multiplication. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. [References: 14]