Generation of a 160-GHz transform-limited pedestal-free pulse train through multiwave mixing compression of a dual-frequency beat signal

Stéphane Pitois (1) , Julien Fatome (2) , Guy Millot (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
2 SLCO

We report the experimental generation of a 160-GHz picosecond pulse train at 1550 nm, using multiple four-wave mixing temporal compression of an initial dual-frequency beat signal in the anomalous-dispersion regime of a nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber. Complete intensity and phase characterizations of the pulse train were carried out by means of a frequency-resolved optical gating technique, showing that 1.27-ps transform-limited pedestal-free Gaussian pulses were generated.

Mots clés: Induced modulational instability; Optical-fiber; Transmission; Soliton; Four-wave mixing; Pulse compression

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Stéphane Pitois, Julien Fatome, Guy Millot. Generation of a 160-GHz transform-limited pedestal-free pulse train through multiwave mixing compression of a dual-frequency beat signal. Optics Letters, 2002, 27 (19), pp.1729-1731. ⟨hal-00475084⟩