All-Optical Sampling in a Multiple Quantum Well Saturable Absorber

Douglas A. Reid,Paul J. Maguire,Liam P. Barry,Quang Trung Le,Sebastien Lobo,Laurent Bramerie,Michel Joindot,Jean-Claude Simon,David Massoubre,Jean-Louis Oudar,Guy Aubin

All-Optical Sampling in a Multiple Quantum Well Saturable Absorber

2008

Douglas A. Reid
Paul J. Maguire
Liam P. Barry
Quang Trung Le
Sebastien Lobo
Laurent Bramerie
Michel Joindot
Jean-Claude Simon
David Massoubre
Jean-Louis Oudar
Guy Aubin

The use of multiple-quantum-well saturable absorbers in all optical sampling of high repetition rate pulse trains is presented. Measurements of a 40 GHz pulse train were made using a device with a response time of 5 ps.

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Optical communication
Saturable absorption
Pulse wave
Self-phase modulation
Sampling (statistics)
Response time
Quantum well
Electronic engineering
Optics
Physics
Pulse (signal processing)
Sum-frequency generation
Optoelectronics

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