title: Demonstration of high-fidelity dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation.
abstract: We experimentally demonstrate a dynamic line-by-line optical arbitrary waveform generation technique capable of generating continuous and bandwidth scalable high-fidelity waveforms without update rate limitations. Two quadrature modulators are used to create up to three spectral slices that are coherently combined by a passband-shaped multiplexer into a single contiguous spectrum to form complex optical waveforms with up to 30 GHz of bandwidth and 6 ns record lengths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, California 95616, USA. nkfontaine@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Nicolas K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Fontaine
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Geisler
authors.forename: Ryan P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: Tingting
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authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Heritage
authors.forename: S J B
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Yoo