Applications of Optical Coherent Transient Technology to Pulse Shaping, Spectral Filtering, Arbitrary Waveform Generation and RF Beamforming
Abstract
Under research conducted by Montana State University and the University of Colorado, several optical coherent transient (OCT) devices was developed and demonstrated, including pulse shaping, arbitrary waveform generation, optical spectral filtering, time integrating correlator, Doppler shifted arrays, and optical beam scanning. OCT's are particularly well suited for RF photonic processing because of their large bandwidths (tens to hundreds of 6Hz), spectral resolution well below a MHz, and time-bandwidth products (TBP) greater than 106. The advancement of OCT technologies is dependent on the development of supporting technologies. Under this grant, several supporting technologies were developed and demonstrated, including high efficiency OCT programming, tapered semi-conductor amplifiers at 793nm, cascaded injection locked amplifiers at 793nm, and frequency chirped lasers at 793nm.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 15, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA452139
Entities
People
- Kelvin Wagner
- Mingzhen Tian
- W. R. Babbitt
Organizations
- Montana State University