All-optical fiber-based amplitude jitter magnifier

Julien Fatome (1) , Christophe Finot (2)

1 SLCO
2 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

We describe the concept of an all-fibered device that enables the optical magnification of the amplitude jitter of low-fluctuation pulse trains, facilitating the measurement of the statistical properties by usual photodiodes and electronic equipments. Taking advantage of a highly nonlinear fiber with anomalous dispersion followed by central optical bandpass filtering, we experimentally demonstrate an amplification of small-scale fluctuations by a factor 10.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Julien Fatome, Christophe Finot. All-optical fiber-based amplitude jitter magnifier. 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, Jun 2010, Munich, Germany. pp.We.P.12. ⟨hal-00506799⟩