Real-time space/time processing with femtosecond laser pulses

Pang Chen Sun; Yuri T. Mazurenko; Yeshaiahu Fainman

doi:10.1117/12.255495

25 October 1996 Real-time space/time processing with femtosecond laser pulses

Pang Chen Sun, Yuri T. Mazurenko, Yeshaiahu Fainman

Proceedings Volume 2849, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications II; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255495
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

Utilization of ultrahigh bandwidth available in optical fiber networks will require development of fast and efficient parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel all- optical multiplexing techniques. Such multiplexers are also useful for interfacing to optical storage devices. In this presentation we will review the application of space/time optical processing with femtosecond laser pulse to implement such multiplexers. We will focus on a novel real time optical space-time processor based on 3-wave mixing in a nonlinear optical crystal. This processor allows conversion of temporal signal sequence to a 1D spatial image, thereby realizing a serial-to-parallel multiplexer. The processor is also used to generate a wigner distribution function, which allows to determine both amplitude and phase of ultrashort temporal signals.

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Pang Chen Sun, Yuri T. Mazurenko, and Yeshaiahu Fainman "Real-time space/time processing with femtosecond laser pulses", Proc. SPIE 2849, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications II, (25 October 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.255495

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