Synthesis of crafted optical pulses by time domain modulation in a fiber-grating compressor
- 2 May 1988
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 52 (18), 1458-1460
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.99097
Abstract
We report a method for direct generation of voltage programmable, arbitrarily shaped laser pulses of subpicosecond duration and roughly 100 fs resolution. A waveguide intensity modulator was fabricated and incorporated into a fiber-grating pulse compressor to shape temporally the chirped pulse before compression. Optical pulses with sin(x)/x and square envelopes are synthesized to demonstrate the technique.Keywords
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