TY - JOUR
T1 - Aberration-free ultra-fast optical oscilloscope using a four-wave mixing based time-lens
AU - Schröder, Jochen
AU - Wang, Fan
AU - Clarke, Aisling
AU - Ryckeboer, Eva
AU - Pelusi, Mark
AU - Roelens, Michaël A F
AU - Eggleton, Benjamin J.
PY - 2010/6/15
Y1 - 2010/6/15
N2 - We demonstrate an aberration-free, all-optical, ultra-fast oscilloscope based on the concept of Fourier-transformation with an optical time-lens. By combining the four-wave mixing time-lens with a Fourier-domain optical processor as the dispersive element we avoid aberrations associated with the traditional method of using lengths of fibre for the dispersive elements. We investigate the impact of aberrations due to third-order dispersion and inaccuracies in matching the Fourier-transform condition and demonstrate how these are overcome using the optical processor. The resolution of the oscilloscope is 750 fs.
AB - We demonstrate an aberration-free, all-optical, ultra-fast oscilloscope based on the concept of Fourier-transformation with an optical time-lens. By combining the four-wave mixing time-lens with a Fourier-domain optical processor as the dispersive element we avoid aberrations associated with the traditional method of using lengths of fibre for the dispersive elements. We investigate the impact of aberrations due to third-order dispersion and inaccuracies in matching the Fourier-transform condition and demonstrate how these are overcome using the optical processor. The resolution of the oscilloscope is 750 fs.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2010.02.019
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2010.02.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77950861835
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 283
SP - 2611
EP - 2614
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 12
ER -