Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 7, 630(2010)

Ultrashort optical pulse monitoring using asynchronous optical sampling technique in highly nonlinear fiber

Dingkang Tang1,2, Jianguo Zhang1,3, Yuanshan Liu1, and Wei Zhao1
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710068, China
  • 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Department of Electrical, Computer and Communications Engineering, London South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, UK
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    An asynchronous optical sampling scheme based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) is experimentally demonstrated. Based on this scheme, 10-GHz input pulse train with 1.8-ps pulse width is successfully sampled in 100-m HNLF. A single pulse at 10 GHz with 2.3-ps pulse width is rebuilt by using a 50-MHz frequency tunable free-running fiber laser as the sampling pulse source (SPS). 40-GHz pulse train is used as the input signal. The rebuilt waveforms, together with the low-jitter eye diagram, are also presented.

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    Dingkang Tang, Jianguo Zhang, Yuanshan Liu, Wei Zhao, "Ultrashort optical pulse monitoring using asynchronous optical sampling technique in highly nonlinear fiber," Chin. Opt. Lett. 8, 630 (2010)

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    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 7, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 19, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100807.0630

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