Spectral Power Enhancement in a 100 GHz Photonic Millimeter-Wave Generator Enabled by Spectral Line-by-Line Pulse Shaping

Waveform Characterization for Spectral Line-by Line Pulse Shaping

We have developd new techniques that enable characterization of ultrafast optical waveforms generated via spectral line-by-line pulse shaping under the Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation (O-AWG) program. Our approaches simultaneously address a number of challenging requirements not met by existing waveform measurement methods, including high waveform complexity, high spectral resolution, and...

Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping for optical arbitrary pulse-train generation

ulse-shaping techniques, in which user-specified ulrashort pulse fields are synthesized via parallel manipuation of optical Fourier components, are now widely dopted [1]. Among the almost arbitrary waveforms enbled by pulse shaping, one subset with particular appeal nvolves generation and manipulation of optical pulse rains. Discrete pulse train packets (or bursts) have been enerated by both Fo...

40-GHz photonic waveform generator by linear shaping of four spectral sidebands.

We show that the amplitude and phase shaping of only four sidebands of the optical spectrum is sufficient to synthesize parabolic, triangular, or flat-top pulse trains at high repetition rates. Selection of the symmetric carrier-suppressed waveform is easily achieved by changing the phase difference between the inner and outer spectral lines. Experiments carried out at a repetition rate of 40 G...

Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of on-chip microresonator frequency combs

Line-by-line pulse shaping with spectral resolution below 890 MHz.

Line-by-line pulse shaping is demonstrated on a 890 MHz repetition rate mode-locked titanium sapphire laser. The high resolution pulse shaper is based on a virtual imaged phased array (VIPA) with a free spectral range of 25 GHz. For our implementation, the mask repeats every VIPA free spectral range, which corresponds to every 28 comb lines. Individual frequency modes from the laser are also re...