High-Sensitivity Spectrographic Method for Characterizing Picosecond Optical Pulses and Data Modulators

Christophe Dorrer; Inuk Kang

Optical Fiber Communications Conference
OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2002),
paper FD4

High-Sensitivity Spectrographic Method for Characterizing Picosecond Optical Pulses and Data Modulators

Christophe Dorrer and Inuk Kang

Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2002

Anaheim, California United States
ISBN: 1-55752-700-8

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C. Dorrer and I. Kang, "High-Sensitivity Spectrographic Method for Characterizing Picosecond Optical Pulses and Data Modulators," in Optical Fiber Communications Conference, A. Sawchuk, ed., Vol. 70 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2002), paper FD4.

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Abstract

We demonstrate a new spectrographic method for the simultaneous temporal characterization of optical pulses and modulators. Optical pulse trains as weak as −40 dBm and the switching dynamics of an electroabsorption modulator are characterized with picosecond resolution.

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