Journal
OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 796-798Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.000796
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
We show that a fiber-optics architecture conventionally used for microwave photonic filtering can implement a time-spectrum convolution (TSC) process of general interest for a wide range of fundamental optical signal processing and analysis operations. This process is practically implemented by temporally modulating a specially filtered broadband incoherent light source followed by propagation through a suitable linear dispersive medium. The TSC concept allows the time-domain realization of fundamental analog processing operations over both temporal and spectral intensity waveforms. Three particular, relevant signal-processing operations are proposed and experimentally demonstrated here to illustrate the broad potential of application of the TSC concept, namely time-integration, spectrum-integration, and time-frequency correlation of discrete binary codes. (c) 2010 Optical Society of America
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available