Pulse compression is a signal processing technique commonly used by radar, sonar and. Wai3 1photonics division, department of physics, school of advanced sciences, vit university, vellore 632 014, tamil nadu, india. The system also has a number of features in common with conventional pulse compression systems. We report the first experimental demonstration of the optical pushbroom a novel type of alloptical pulse compression. Pulse compression radar is the practical implementation of a matchedfilter system. Pulses as short as 5 fs were generated at repetition rates up to 1 mhz.
As a result, the matched filter output is compressed by a factor, where is the pulsewidth and is the bandwidth. Pulse compression gratings kaiser optical systems, inc. This pulse width is one of the critical characteristics of the pulse compression radar. The femtosecond pulse compressor should be placed in the beam path between the laser and the microscope. A well developed technique for pulse compression has been used for several years. The stretched pulse is amplified and then compressed by a double grating compressor 3. The clarity of the experimental results and their close agreement with numerical. The performance enhancement of an optical pulse compression unit is demonstrated using nonlinearity in optical fibers. Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses sciencedirect. Our ultraclear transmissive gratings have the highest efficiency on the market, with virtually no ghosting or. Volume 56, number 3 optics communications 1 december 1985 compression of amplified chirped optical pulses donna strickland and gerard mourou l. Osa compression of optical pulses chirped by selfphase. Signal detectability depends on total energy and is therefore favored by long pulses.
The pulse is linearly chirped in the fiber by the com bination of group velocity dispersion and selfphase modulation 2. Chapter 3 nonlinear pulse propagation mit opencourseware. Pedestal free pulse compression of chirped optical solitons k. This is achieved by modulating the transmitted pulse and then correlating the received signal with the transmitted pulse. Leaird bellcore, 331 newman springs road, red bank, new jersey 07701 received may 1, 1991 we demonstrate a novel pulsecompression technique. Pulse compression gratings kaiser is a pioneer in the use of vph gratings in ultrafast lasers with some of our earliest pulse compression gratings being designed for the center for ultrafast optical science located at the university of michigan and delivered in 1995. Taraprasad chattopadhyay department of physics visvabharati university santiniketan, west bengal, india. Rp photonics encyclopedia pulse compression, shortening. Gratings for laser pulse compression wasatch photonics enhanced volume phase holographic vph gratings are exceptional for pulse compression and pulse stretching of high power ultrafast lasers.
The pulses were frequency broadened and linearly chirped by the combined action of selfphase modulation and group velocity dispersion during passage through a 30m singlemode optical fiber. Pulse compression using optical fibers springerlink. Pulse compression most ultrashort laser pulses pass through glass or other materials on their way to their final destination, which lengthens the pulse and introduces positive chirp into the pulse the red precedes the blue. Gratings for laser pulse compression wasatch photonics. Pulse compression method for radar signal processing. Such short durations make light pulses very interesting for many applications, such as. For example, solidstate switching in the pulse compression ring is carried out prior to pulse compression, while the pulse duration is relatively long and the current level is low. All optical threedimensional electron pulse compression view the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more home search collections journals about contact us my iopscience. Thereafter, the pulse duration can be strongly reduced by linear. In addition, we discuss the generation of exact chirped higher order solitons using the b. Development of a laserpulse compression device based on.
In soliton pulse compression, the compressed pulses suffer from significant pedestal generation, leading to nonlinear interactions between neighboring solitons 7. In the pulse compression experiment based on temporal phase zone plates, we achieve a resolution of 25. The shortening of the duration of an optical pulse by techniques similar to those used in chirp radar, in which a frequency sweep is imposed on the pulse and the pulse is. The beam height is set by a base plate that is included with the unit. The pulse compression ratio pcr is defined as width of the pulse after compression width of the pulse before compression pcr 2 2. Pulse compression gratings fused silica transmission gratings unbeatable energypower damage threshold combined with highefficiency spectral performance. The shortening of the duration of an optical pulse by techniques similar to those used in chirp radar, in which a frequency sweep is imposed on the pulse and the pulse is then compressed by using a dispersive delay line. Wai c a photonics division, department of physics, school of advanced sciences, vit university, vellore 632 014, tamil nadu, india. Alloptical pulse compression of broadband microwave.
In the first case, we consider the initial normalized chirp to be cz. Lfm pulse compression linear fm pulse compression is accomplished by adding frequency modula tion to a long pulse at transmission, and by using a matched filter receiver in order to compress the received signal. Selfcompression of optical laser pulses by filamentation. In order to obtain high range resolution, pulse compression has been used. The interest in using large lasers to achieve a very short and intense pulse for generating fusion plasma has provided a strong impetus to reexamine the possibilities of optical pulse compression at high energy. Wai c a photonics division, department of physics, school of advanced sciences, vit university, vellore 632 014, tamil nadu, india b school of engineering, fraser noble building, kings college, university of aberdeen, aberdeen ab24 3ue, scotland, uk. At present, the compression method that is achieving parabolic pulse with linear chirp and compensating the linear chirp is paid more attention. Matched filtering algorithm for pulse compression radar. If the initial normalized chirp is relatively large, cz.
Temporal solitons and pulse compression in photonic. Pulse compression is a signal processing technique to increase the signal and noise ratio, detection range and range resolution. Alloptical pulse compression of broadband microwave signal based on stimulated brillouin scattering xin long, 1 weiwen zou, 1, 2, and jianping chen1, 2 1state key laboratory of advanced optical communication systems and networks, department of electronic engineering, shanghai jiao tong university, shanghai 200240, china. In a first step, the optical bandwidth is increased, typically with a nonlinear interaction such as selfphase modulation. As shown by the sample images above, pulse width broadening can lead to significantly decreased image contrast in twophoton microscopy. Prismatic pulse compressors for femtosecond, and ultrafast tunable lasers, were first introduced, via a singleprism configuration, in 1983 by dietel et al. In the pulsecompression experiment based on temporal phase zone plates, we achieve a resolution of 25. There are two methods for digital pulse compression dpc, that is, convolution integral in time domain and matched filter in frequency. Ultrashort pulse compression using photonic crystal fibre. Optical pulse compression in fiber bragg gratings eprints soton. Singledispersiveelement pulse compressors our singlediffractiongrating pulse compressor uses only three elements.
Opticalpulse compression article about opticalpulse. Pdf alloptical pulse compression of broadband microwave. Taraprasad chattopadhyay department of physics visva. Optical pulse compression in a polarization insensitive nonlinear loop mirror. For a gi ven set of radar parameters, and as long as the transmitted pulse remains unchanged, the snr is also unchanged regardless of the signal bandwidth. We report the results of a theoretical analysis of this process. To satisfy the conditions t 0 t sat pulse with t 0 15 ps with t 0 t sat 0. Simulation of optical pulse compression using parabolic. The probability of detection is related to signaltonoise ratio snr rather than exact shape of the signal received.
The wellknown prism or grating pulse compressor compensates for this effect, reducing the pulse length to its. Lasers and related devices have been found to have an amazing potential for generating light pulses with very special properties there is a wide range of techniques for generating pulses with durations of nanoseconds, picoseconds, or even femtoseconds with lasers. Range compression is achieved by using linear frequency modulated waveform and applying pulse compression, to achieve a good range resolution. Pdf linear optical pulse compression based on temporal zone. Singlediffractiongrating and grism pulse compressors. Pulse compression allows one to generate pulses of long duration minimizing damage problems and subsequently compress optical. The amplitude of a a frequencymodulated pulse over time. Pdf linear optical pulse compression based on temporal.
Joule output pulses from a commercial laser system. The reflected radar signal is corrupted by additive white gaussian noise awgn from the transmission channel. The nonlinear compression of optical pulses relies on a delicate balance of a materials nonlinearity and optical dispersion. In the optical pushbroom high intensity pump pulses, tuned well away from the resonance of a bragg grating, modify the transmission of a weak probe tuned near to the gratings photonic bandgap. Leaird bellcore, 331 newman springs road, red bank, new jersey 07701 received may 1, 1991 we demonstrate a novel pulse compression technique that uses the selfconfinement of twodimensional spatial. Pedestal free pulse compression of chirped optical solitons. The use of selfphase modulation in a singlemode fiber to chirp an optical pulse, which is then compressed with a gratingpair compressor, has been shown to be a practical technique for the production of optical pulses at least as short as 30 fsec. Mar 15, 2012 soliton pulse compression and adiabatic pulse compression techniques are most commonly used ones for the compression process. R27r29 february 1993 with 27 reads how we measure reads.
Pdf range sidelobe suppression for pulse compression. In adiabatic soliton compression 10, 12, a soliton pulse is compressed during propagation in a fiber the anomalous dispersion of which becomes weaker and weaker along the propagation direction. A laser pulse compressor based on stimulated brillouin scattering has been developed and evaluated. It is the key of realizing high speed, large capacity fiber information transmission that achieve ultrashort optical pulse by optical pulse compression. During the compression, the normalized chirp decreases and eventually the compressed pulse possesses a small amount of normalized chirp cz. Highpower femtosecond optical pulse compression by using spatial solitons d. Swamp optics tutorial pulse compression recall that different colors propagate at different velocities so that, after passing through the material, different colors experience different delays, a ubiquitous effect called groupdelay dispersion gdd. Alloptical threedimensional electron pulse compression. Temporal solitons and pulse compression in photonic crystal.
Fine range resolution requires large signal bandwidth. We report on the characterization and compression of the whitelight continuum produced by injection of a fs pulse from a cavitydumped selfmodelocked ti. In most cases, this leads to chirped pulses, often with a duration which is even larger than the original pulse duration. Indeed, we see in section 4 that the transverse compression of 30 kev electrons is a relatively weak function of t. Here, the average transmitted power of a relatively long pulse is generated, while obtaining the range resolution corresponding to a short pulse. A shorter pulse could lead to drastic cost and size reduction of the laser facility, since most of the purchasing price of ampli. Prismatic pulse compression was first introduced, using a single prism, in 1983 by dietel et al. One solution for using pulse compression waveforms to. Pulse compression is a signal processing technique commonly used by radar, sonar and echography to increase the range resolution as well as the signal to noise ratio.
Temporal solitons and pulse compression in photonic crystal waveguides p. Thorlabs femtosecond pulse compressor helps correct for the pulse width broadening that occurs in all multiphoton microscopes. Pdf incoherent optical control of pulse propagation and. Range sidelobe suppression for pulse compression radars utilizing modified rls algorithm. The pulse is characterized by its pulse width, which in the case of a pulse compression radar is called the uncompressed pulse width, t.
It is a hotspot for radar design to study high realtime pulse compression. Aug 21, 20 it is the key of realizing high speed, large capacity fiber information transmission that achieve ultrashort optical pulse by optical pulse compression. It consists in launching the pulse to be compressed into a long guiding structure. Alloptical pulse compression of broadband microwave signal based on stimulated brillouin scattering article pdf available in optics express 245 december 2015 with 120 reads.
This pulse width is one of the critical characteristics of the pulsecompression radar. Osa optical pulse compression to 5 fs at a 1mhz repetition. Additional experimental developments include a prismpair pulse compressor and a sixprism pulse compressor for semiconductor lasers. Most ultrashort laser pulses pass through glass or other materials on their way to their final destination, which lengthens the pulse and introduces positive chirp into the pulse the red precedes the blue. An efficient time lens for optical pulse compression. The aim of our project is to compare pulse compression of different waveforms using correlation of real signals or matched filter for analytic signals. High realtime design of digital pulse compression based on fpga. Pulsecompression radar is the practical implementation of a matchedfilter system. Our ultraclear transmissive gratings have the highest efficiency on the market, with virtually no ghosting or scatter. Soa pulse compression physical parameters to satisfy the conditions t 0 t sat compression mechanism could be higherorder soliton compression or adiabatic soliton compression. The system also has a number of features in common with conventional pulsecompression systems. The pulse is characterized by its pulse width, which in the case of a pulsecompression radar is called the uncompressed pulse width, t. For wavelengths less than those used in telecommunications about 1. For example, solidstate switching in the pulsecompression ring is carried out prior to pulse compression, while the pulse duration is relatively long and the current level is low.
Ibsen manufactures 100% fused silica pulse compression gratings that offer unbeatable energypower handling capacity, combined with highefficiency, low wavefront distortion performance. Tutorial this is a brief tutorial on prism and multipleprism pulse compression, and compressors, provided from a historical perspective. Simulation of optical pulse compression using parabolic pulse. High realtime design of digital pulse compression based. As femtosecond laser systems advance to everincreasing energy levels, demands on the energypower handling capabilities of pulse compression gratings increase. Enhanced nonlinear pulse compression from supercontinuum. Numerical results are presented for the achievable compression and compressed. Linear frequency modulation lfm pulse is taken as an example to implement the opcr.
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