All-optical temporal integration of ultrafast pulse waveforms.
An ultrafast all-optical temporal integrator is experimentally demonstrated. The demonstrated integrator is based on a very simple and practical solution only requiring the use of a widely available all-fiber passive component, namely a reflection uniform fiber Bragg grating (FBG). This design allows overcoming the severe speed (bandwidth) limitations of the previously demonstrated photonic integrator designs. We demonstrate temporal integration of a variety of ultrafast optical waveforms, including Gaussian, odd-symmetry Hermite Gaussian, and (odd-)symmetry double pulses, with temporal features as fast as ~6-ps, which is about one order of magnitude faster than in previous photonic integration demonstrations. The developed device is potentially interesting for a multitude of applications in all-optical computing and information processing, ultrahigh-speed optical communications, ultrafast pulse (de-)coding, shaping and metrology.
Park
Yongwoo
Y
Institut National de la Recherché Scientifique-Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes, Québec, Canada. park@emt.inrs.ca
Ahn
Tae-Jung
TJ
Dai
Yitang
Y
Yao
Jianping
J
Azaña
José
J