All-optical signal processing using dynamic Brillouin gratings

Sci Rep. 2013:3:1594. doi: 10.1038/srep01594.

Abstract

The manipulation of dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers is demonstrated to be an extremely flexible technique to achieve, with a single experimental setup, several all-optical signal processing functions. In particular, all-optical time differentiation, time integration and true time reversal are theoretically predicted, and then numerically and experimentally demonstrated. The technique can be exploited to process both photonic and ultra-wide band microwave signals, so enabling many applications in photonics and in radio science.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Fiber Optic Technology / instrumentation*
  • Optical Devices*
  • Refractometry / instrumentation*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*