Time magnification of electrical signals using chirped optical pulses

被引:45
作者
Coppinger, F [1 ]
Bhushan, AS [1 ]
Jalali, B [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Elect Engn, Optoelect Circuits & Syst Lab, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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D O I
10.1049/el:19980328
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
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 electrooptic intensity modulator. This is followed by a passive optical dispersion element to produce a time-magnified copy of the input electrical signal.
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页码:399 / 400
页数:2
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