Title

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

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2011.2165315

Language

English

First Page

3091

Last Page

3098

WOS Identifier

WOS:000295731800001

ISSN

0733-8724

Recommended Citation

"Multiheterodyne Detection for Spectral Compression and Downconversion of Arbitrary Periodic Optical Signals" (2011). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 1232.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/1232