On recent progress in all-fibered pulsed optical sources from 20 GHz to 2 THz based on multiple four wave mixing approach

Julien Fatome (1) , Stéphane Pitois (2) , Coraline Fortier (2) , Bertrand Kibler (2) , Christophe Finot (2) , Guy Millot (2) , Clément Courde (3) , Michel Lintz (3) , Etienne Samain (4)

1 SLCO
2 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
3 ARTEMIS - Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux
4 GEOAZUR 6526 - Géoazur

In this paper, we report recent progress on the design of all-fibered ultra-high repetition-rate pulse sources for telecommunication applications around 1550 nm. Based on the nonlinear compression of an initial beat-signal in optical fibers through a multiple four-wave mixing process, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that this simple technique allows an efficient and accurate design of versatile pulse sources having repetition rates and pulse durations ranging from 20 GHz up to 2 THz and from 10 ps up to 110 fs, respectively.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Julien Fatome, Stéphane Pitois, Coraline Fortier, Bertrand Kibler, Christophe Finot, et al.. On recent progress in all-fibered pulsed optical sources from 20 GHz to 2 THz based on multiple four wave mixing approach. 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Network, Jun 2009, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. pp.Th.B2.2, ⟨10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185324⟩. ⟨hal-00470025⟩