Pulse shapes reconfigured on a pulse-to-pulse time scale by using an array of injection-locked VCSELs

Sharad Bhooplapur; Nazanin Hoghooghi; Peter J Delfyett

doi:10.1364/OL.36.001887

Pulse shapes reconfigured on a pulse-to-pulse time scale by using an array of injection-locked VCSELs

Opt Lett. 2011 May 15;36(10):1887-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.36.001887.

Authors

Sharad Bhooplapur¹, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Peter J Delfyett

Affiliation

¹ CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, 32816-2700, USA. sbhoopla@creol.ucf.edu

PMID: 21593924
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001887

Abstract

We demonstrate line-by-line pulse shaping of optical comb lines separated by 6.25 GHz. An array of injection-locked VCSELs independently modulate four optical comb lines at frequencies up to 3.125 GHz, updating the pulse shape on the time scale of the pulse period.