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10 GHz , 2.4 ps pulse generation using a single-stage dual-drive Mach–Zehnder modulator

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This Letter reports on picosecond pulse generation at a repetition of 10GHz by using a single-stage electro-optic LiNbO3 Mach–Zehnder modulator, stressing the simplicity of its setup. It is analytically and experimentally proved that dual-arm modulation with in-phase sinusoidal signals having slightly different amplitudes generated a highly coherent optical comb with a great spectral flatness and a parabolic phase relationship in its spectrum. The generated comb was Fourier synthesized and shaped into an ultrashort pulse train with an optical bandpass filter and a dispersive fiber. The pulse source was highly stable, exhibiting an ultralow timing jitter of less than 130fs.

© 2008 Optical Society of America

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