title: Arbitrary-order all-fiber temporal differentiator based on a fiber Bragg grating: design and experimental demonstration.
abstract: A new technique to design an all-fiber temporal differentiator that has a large bandwidth and an arbitrary differentiation order is proposed and investigated. The proposed temporal differentiator is a special fiber Bragg grating (FBG) that is designed by controlling its magnitude and phase responses with the discrete layer peeling (DLP) method. There are three important features of this technique: 1) the temporal differentiator has an arbitrary magnitude response and a controllable bandwidth; 2) the temporal differentiator can be designed and fabricated with an arbitrary differentiation order that is realized in a single FBG; 3) the required maximum index modulation of the FBG-based differentiator is largely decreased by using a Gaussian windowing function. The use of the proposed technique to design temporal differentiators with a differentiation order up to the fourth and with a bandwidth up to 500 GHz is studied. A proof-of-concept experiment is then carried out. A first- and a second-order temporal differentiator with a bandwidth of 25 GHz are experimentally demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Janner
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Valerio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pruneri
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D055100:Optical Fibers; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*