Experimental Generation of FCC-Compliant UWB Pulse using FBGs

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Abtahi, M.; Magn, J.; Mirshafiei, M.; Doucet, S.; Rusch, L. A.; LaRochelle, S. (Center for Optics, Photonics and Laser (COPL), ECE Dept., Laval University, Quebec (QC), G1K7P4, Canada)

Abstract:
A simple and robust technique for the generation of power-efficient, FCC-compliant UWB pulses is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. An FBG shapes the source spectrum and a length of SMF performs the frequency-to-time conversion.