Generation of a chirp-free optical pulse train with tunable pulse width based on a polarization modulator and an intensity modulator.

Preliminary Design of Spacecraft Attitude Control with Pulse-Width Pulse-Frequency Modulator for Rest-to-Rest Maneuvers

In this paper, the preferred region of design parameters for quasi-normalized equations of single-axis attitude control of rigid spacecraft using pulse-width pulse-frequency modulator (PWPFM) is presented for rest-to-rest maneuvers. Using the quasi-normalized equations for attitude control reduces the system parameters, that is, the moment of inertia, the filter gain, and the maximum torque of ...

10 GHz pulse source for 640 Gbit/s OTDM based on phase modulator and self-phase modulation.

We demonstrate a high-quality cavity-free 10 GHz 680 fs pulse source starting from a continuous wave (CW) laser. The pulse source is employed in a 640 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) OTDM data generation and demultiplexing experiment, where the error-free bit error rate (BER) performance confirms the high pulse quality. The pulse source is based on a linear pulse compression stage followed by two po...

Simulation analysis of an improved optical triangular-shaped pulse train generator based on quadrupling RF modulation incorporating fiber dispersion-induced power fading

We report an improved approach to generate optical triangular-shaped pulse train using quadrupling RF modulation and fiber dispersion-induced power fading. In the proposal, quadrupling RF modulation (via a dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulator) is employed to generate four primary optical sidebands (±2nd and ±6th) in spectrum. Then a piece of single mode fiber is connected as the dispersive medi...

Picosecond Laser Source with Single Knob Adjustable Pulse Width

We describe and demonstrate a system which can be used with many types of actively modelocked lasers to create a source of variable width picosecond pulses. This system is an active compression scheme which incorporates a resonant electro-optic quadratic phase modulator to impart the linear frequency chirp on an optical pulse. To demonstrate, we used the modulator to chirp the 85 ps pulses from...

Design and Realization of an Improved De-Q-ing Circuit for Regulation of Modulator Output Pulse Amplitudes in a Radar Transmitter