학술논문

Automatic Phase Compensation for Extremely Short Optical-Pulse Generation Using Wavelet Transform
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics IEEE J. Quantum Electron. Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of. 43(12):1218-1226 Dec, 2007
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Ultraviolet sources
Wavelet transforms
Ultrafast optics
Optical feedback
Optical pulse generation
Optical pulses
Negative feedback
Wavelet analysis
Uncertainty
Fourier transforms
Automatic phase compensation
few- to mono-cycle optical pulse
over-octave bandwidth pulses
wavelet transform (WT)
Language
ISSN
0018-9197
1558-1713
Abstract
We introduce the wavelet transform (WT) method to automatic phase compensation for the generation of extremely short optical pulses with a duration of a few to several femtoseconds. This method is based on the immediate negative feedback of the spectral phase which is directly reconstructed by the wavelet-transform analysis with no uncertainty in phase retrieval without any manual decision, unlike the Fourier transform method. It is shown that the wavelet-transform method is useful for automatic compensations for three types of ultrabroadband pulses with different characteristics, such as: 1) a strong chirp; 2) a 600-rad spectral-phase variation over one octave bandwidth; and 3) a complicated spectral phase as well as a structured intensity spectrum.