All-Optical Ultrawideband Monocycle Generation Using Quadratic Nonlinear Interaction Seeded by Dark Pulses

作者：Wang Jian^*; Sun Junqiang

来源：IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2010, 22(3): 140-142.

DOI：10.1109/LPT.2009.2036742

• Microwave photonics
• monocycle
• nonlinear optics
• optical signal processing
• parametric depletion
• periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN)
• sum-frequency generation (SFG)
• ultrawideband (UWB)

We propose and demonstrate a new approach to all-optical generation of ultrawideband (UWB) monocycle pulses using the quadratic nonlinear interaction seeded by dark pulses in a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide. When feeding two dark optical pulses with proper relative time delay to participate in the sum-frequency generation (SFG) in a PPLN, the parametric depletion effect accomplishes the tailoring of the dark pulse to be a UWB monocycle pulse at a single wavelength. Pairs of polarity-inverted UWB monocycle pulses are generated in the experiment with the central wavelength, 10-dB bandwidth, and fractional bandwidth conforming to the UWB definition by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC, part 15).

• 出版日期2010-2-1
• 单位华中科技大学