Abstract

We propose a simple and fast procedure to retrieve the phase profile of arbitrary light pulses. It combines a first experimental stage, followed by a one-step numerical stage. To this end, it is necessary to perform a Fresnel transform, which is obtained just by propagating the light pulses through an optical fiber. We experimentally test this proposal recovering the phase profile in the light pulses provided by a passively mode-locked laser. The proposal is then compared with a temporal variation of the Gerchberg–Saxton recursive algorithm, which is specially modified for this purpose.

© 2014 Optical Society of America

Overcoming the limitation of phase retrieval using Gerchberg–Saxton-like algorithm in optical fiber time-stretch systems

Yiqing Xu, Zhibo Ren, Kenneth K. Y. Wong, and Kevin Tsia
Opt. Lett. 40(15) 3595-3598 (2015)

Ultrafast all-optical clock recovery based on phase-only linear optical filtering

Reza Maram, Deming Kong, Michael Galili, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, and José Azaña
Opt. Lett. 39(9) 2815-2818 (2014)

Demonstration of all-optical phase noise suppression scheme using optical nonlinearity and conversion/dispersion delay

Mohammad Reza Chitgarha, Salman Khaleghi, Morteza Ziyadi, Amirhossein Mohajerin-Ariaei, Ahmed Almaiman, Wajih Daab, Devora Rogawski, Moshe Tur, Joseph D. Touch, Carsten Langrock, Martin M. Fejer, and Alan E. Willner
Opt. Lett. 39(10) 2928-2931 (2014)

Active phase drift cancellation for optic-fiber frequency transfer using a photonic radio-frequency phase shifter

Jianguo Shen, Guiling Wu, Liang Hu, Weiwen Zou, and Jianping Chen
Opt. Lett. 39(8) 2346-2349 (2014)

Digital compensation of cross-phase modulation distortions using perturbation technique for dispersion-managed fiber-optic systems

Xiaojun Liang, Shiva Kumar, Jing Shao, Mahdi Malekiha, and David V. Plant
Opt. Express 22(17) 20634-20645 (2014)