Multiheterodyne Detection for Spectral Compression and Downconversion of Arbitrary Periodic Optical Signals

    Authors

    J. Davila-Rodriguez; M. Bagnell; C. Williams;P. J. Delfyett

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Lightwave Technol.

    Keywords

    Frequency combs; heterodyne; MODE-LOCKED LASER; FREQUENCY COMBS; STABILIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; GENERATION; RESOLUTION; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Telecommunications

    Abstract

    Optical frequency combs are used as local oscillators for the measurement and analysis of unknown optical waveforms with periodic time domain structures. Experimental results obtained by heterodyning pulsed and phase-modulated laser sources are presented. The analysis is then extended to the heterodyning and sampling of bandlimited incoherent light sources. It is shown theoretically and experimentlly that the correlations between photodetected white light at different times can generate RF interference that is sensitive to the optical phase.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Lightwave Technology

    Volume

    29

    Issue/Number

    20

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    3091

    Last Page

    3098

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000295731800001

    ISSN

    0733-8724

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