An Optical Pulse Generator from a Sinusoidal Optical Signal Using Sagnac Loop Self-Sampling

Ricardo Ribeiro (1) , Vinicius Silva (1) , Andres Pablo Barbero (1) , Murilo Carvalho (1) , Frédéric Lucarz (2) , Bruno Fracasso (2)

1 Departamento de Engenharia de Telecomunicaçoes
2 OPT - Département Optique

It is experimentally shown an original optical pulse generator able to produce pulses at MHz rate with few ns timewidth at 1/3 of input period. It is based on the self-switched Semiconductor Laser Amplifier Loop Mirror (SLALOM)configuration. The input is a sinusoidal signal in the C-band and the output is amplified pulses. Numerical simulations are also carried out and shown that GHz & ps pulse generation is possible. Besides their usefulness as an optical pulse generator,application in self-sampling is also discussed.

Mots clés: Optical sampling; SOA; Radio-over-Fibre; Sagnac

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Ricardo Ribeiro, Vinicius Silva, Andres Pablo Barbero, Murilo Carvalho, Frédéric Lucarz, et al.. An Optical Pulse Generator from a Sinusoidal Optical Signal Using Sagnac Loop Self-Sampling. LATINCOM 2013 : 5th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, Nov 2013, Santiago, Chile. ⟨hal-00935380⟩