Single Shot Amplitude and Phase Characterization of Optical Arbitrary Waveforms
Abstract
Using a time-gated dual quadrature spectral interferometry technique, for the first time we demonstrate single-shot characterization of both spectral amplitude and phase of ~1THz bandwidth optical arbitrary waveforms generated from a 10 GHz frequency comb. Our measurements provide a temporal resolution of 1ps over a record length of 100ps. Singleshot characterization becomes particularly relevant when waveform synthesis operations are updated at the repetition rate of the comb allowing creation of potentially infinite record length waveforms. We first demonstrate unambiguous single shot retrieval using rapidly updating waveforms. We then perform additional single-shot measurements of static user-defined waveforms generated via line-by-line pulse shaping.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.2420,
title = {Single Shot Amplitude and Phase Characterization of Optical Arbitrary Waveforms},
author = {V. R. Supradeepa and Daniel E. Leaird and Andrew M. Weiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2420},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures. Added new references and minor changes to text