Demonstration of input-to-output gain and temporal noise mitigation in a Talbot amplifier
Optics
2018-05-09 v1
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate intensity amplification of repetitive picosecond optical pulses with an input-to-output gain up to 5.5 dB using a passive Talbot amplifier. Through the dispersion-induced temporal Talbot effect, the amplifier uses electro-optic phase modulation and a low-loss dispersive medium to exploit and coherently redistribute the energy of the original pulse train into fewer, replica, amplified pulses. In addition, we show how our passive amplifier mitigates the pulse train timing-jitter and pulse-to-pulse intensity fluctuations above a specific cutoff frequency.
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@article{arxiv.1710.00033,
title = {Demonstration of input-to-output gain and temporal noise mitigation in a Talbot amplifier},
author = {Reza Maram and Mohamed Seghilani and Jinwoo Jeon and Xiao-Zhou Li and Luis Romero Cortes and James van Howe and Jose Azana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00033},
year = {2018}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures