Optical sampling using an all-fiber optical Kerr shutter
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 46 (7), 623-625
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.95506
Abstract
An all-fiber optical Kerr shutter consisting of a short single-mode fiber and a highly birefringent fiber which serves not only as a polarizer but also as a wavelength filter to reject pump light is successfully realized. By utilizing the Kerr shutter, optical sampling is demonstrated. Time-varying signal light from a laser diode at λ=0.84 μm is sampled into a train of pulses through the Kerr shutter which is driven by an intense light pulse at λ=1.064 μm. The applications to high-speed signal processing and the generation of picosecond optical pulse are promising because of the fiber’s fast response of optical Kerr effect.Keywords
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