TIME MAGNIFICATION OF ELECTRICAL SIGNALS USING CHIRPED OPTICAL PULSES

Authors
COPPINGER F BHUSHAN AS JALALI B
Citation
F. Coppinger et al., TIME MAGNIFICATION OF ELECTRICAL SIGNALS USING CHIRPED OPTICAL PULSES, Electronics Letters, 34(4), 1998, pp. 399-400
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
34
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
399 - 400
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1998)34:4<399:TMOESU>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The authors report a method for stretching electrical signals in time. A high chirp rate is imposed on the electrical signal by mixing it wi th a dispersed ultra-short optical pulse in an electrooptic intensity modulator. This is followed by a passive optical dispersion element to produce a time-magnified copy of the input electrical signal.