Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping for optical arbitrary pulse-train generation

Jiang, Zhi; Huang, Chen‐Bin; Leaird, Daniel E.; Weiner, Andrew M.

doi:10.1364/josab.24.002124

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“…In the frequency domain the output of such mode-locked lasers are characterized by an evenly spaced series of discrete spectral lines, with the frequency spacing equal to the pulse repetition rate. In this subsection we demonstrate optical arbitrary pulse train generation (OAPTG) using spectral line-by-line pulse shaping, in which a pulse train spanning the whole period can be generated and individual pulses can be independently manipulated to have different user-specified waveforms [31]. This is in contrast to previous work on pulse train generation using Fourier transform pulse shapers in the group of lines pulse shaping regime [11,32,33], in which sequences of pulses with different shapes have been demonstrated, but only over a time aperture short compared to the repetition period.…”

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Spectral line‐by‐line shaping for optical and microwave arbitrary waveform generations

Huang

Jiang

Leaird

et al. 2008

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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Spectral line-by-line shaping is a key enabler towards optical arbitrary waveform generation, which promises broad impact both in optical science and technology. In this paper, generation of optical and microwave arbitrary waveforms using the spectral line-by-line shaping technique is reviewed. Compared to conventional pulse shaping, significant new physics arises in the line-by-line regime, where the shaped pulse fields generated from one laser pulse now overlap with those generated from adjacent pulses. This leads to coherent interference effects related to the properties of optical frequency combs which serve as the source in these experiments. We explore such effects in a series of experiments using several different high-repetitionrate optical combs, including harmonically mode-locked lasers and continuous-wave lasers that are externally phase modulated either with or without the help of an optical cavity. As an application of line-by-line pulse shaping, we describe generation of microwave electrical arbitrary waveforms that can be reprogrammed at rates approaching 10 GHz.Significance of line-by-line shaping: combining optical frequency combs with spectral pulse shaping

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Spectral line‐by‐line shaping for optical and microwave arbitrary waveform generations

Huang

Jiang

Leaird

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Laser & Photonics Reviews

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“…One alternative is pulse repetition rate multiplication (PRRM) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] of a lower rate source. In frequency domain, an ideal periodic pulse train is composed by a sequence of discrete spectral components, and PRRM techniques are based on periodically changing the amplitude and/or phase of these spectral components by linear filtering.…”

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“…In frequency domain, an ideal periodic pulse train is composed by a sequence of discrete spectral components, and PRRM techniques are based on periodically changing the amplitude and/or phase of these spectral components by linear filtering. This can be obtained by using a spectrally-periodic filter [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] as well as a non-spectrally-periodic filter (typically first order dispersive mediums) [11][12][13][14]. In particular, all-pass filtering PRRM methods [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] are highly desirable because of its intrinsic high energy efficiency.…”

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All-pass optical structures for repetition rate multiplication

Preciado¹,

Muriel²

2008

Opt. Express

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“…In the context of robustness to control field disturbances, the theory and methodologies developed herein are most conveniently applied to disturbances wherein the frequency domain correlation function is a physically natural representation, which is the case for intensity and phase noise in laser control [20,21,39,40].…”

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Robustness of controlled quantum dynamics

Koswara

Chakrabarti

2014

Phys. Rev. A

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Control of multi-level quantum systems is sensitive to implementation errors in the control field and uncertainties associated with system Hamiltonian parameters. A small variation in the control field spectrum or the system Hamiltonian can cause an otherwise optimal field to deviate from controlling desired quantum state transitions and reaching a particular objective. An accurate analysis of robustness is thus essential in understanding and achieving model-based quantum control, such as in control of chemical reactions based on ab initio or experimental estimates of the molecular Hamiltonian. In this paper, theoretical foundations for quantum control robustness analysis are presented from both a distributional perspective -in terms of moments of the transition amplitude, interferences, and transition probability -and a worst-case perspective. Based on this theory, analytical expressions and a computationally efficient method for determining the robustness of coherently controlled quantum dynamics are derived. The robustness analysis reveals that there generally exists a set of control pathways that are more resistant to destructive interferences in the presence of control field and system parameter uncertainty. These robust pathways interfere and combine to yield a relatively accurate transition amplitude and high transition probability when uncertainty is present.

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Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping for optical arbitrary pulse-train generation

Abstract: We demonstrate optical arbitrary pulse-train generation using spectral line-by-line pulse shaping. The pulse train within each period can be independently controlled as specified.

Cited by 25 publications

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Spectral line‐by‐line shaping for optical and microwave arbitrary waveform generations

Spectral line‐by‐line shaping for optical and microwave arbitrary waveform generations

All-pass optical structures for repetition rate multiplication

Robustness of controlled quantum dynamics

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