MODULATION OPTICAL DISTANCE GAUGE WITH PHASE-FREQUENCY SIGNAL CONVERSION

Rigorous intensity and phase-shift manipulation in optical frequency conversion

A simple method is employed to investigate the nonlinear frequency conversion in optical superlattices (OSL) with pump depletion. Four rigorous phase-matching conditions for different purposes are obtained directly from the nonlinear coupled equations, and the resulting OSL domain structures are generally aperiodic rather than periodic. With this method, not only the intensity but also the phas...

Range-resolved interferometric signal processing using sinusoidal optical frequency modulation.

A novel signal processing technique using sinusoidal optical frequency modulation of an inexpensive continuous-wave laser diode source is proposed that allows highly linear interferometric phase measurements in a simple, self-referencing setup. Here, the use of a smooth window function is key to suppress unwanted signal components in the demodulation process. Signals from several interferometer...

All Optical Parametric Frequency Conversion Based on Cross Gain Modulation on a Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

This paper reports a detailed experimental study of the wavelength conversion dynamics using cross-gain modulation in reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers. The effect of pump and probe powers on the operating performance in terms of signal to noise ratio was experimentally investigating. The variation of others performance indicators such as extinction ratio, timing jitter and eye openin...

Optical signal - to - noise ratio monitoring with gain and frequency conversion

Selecting optical patterns with spatial phase modulation.

Optical pattern selection by use of spatial phase modulation is investigated experimentally in a photorefractive feedback system. A feedback mirror with spatially periodic phase modulation is used for selection of different spatial patterns. Local phase modulation is used to create patterns with coexisting spatial symmetries. The experimental results are consistent with numerical simulations ba...