Abstract:
The invention relates to a programmable acousto-optical device in which an unknown input polarisation wave interacts successively with several different sound beams which are generated by piezoelectric transducers (T1 to T6) in one or more birefringent elasto-optical media. Said device comprises circuits for generating programmable discrete amplitude frequencies that are applied to the transducers (T1 to T6) and provides an output optical wave having a frequency spectrum amplitude modulation that is a function of both the input optical wave modulation and the sound wave modulation. The invention is particularly suitable for wavelength-multiplexed optical communication systems
Abstract:
The acousto-optic device comprises a birefringent elasto-optic medium (1) equipped with a transducer (5). The transducer generates a modulated acoustic wave which interacts with an incident optical wave. The acousto-optic device comprises a birefringent elasto-optic medium (1) equipped with a transducer (5). The transducer generates in the medium (1) a modulated acoustic wave along a specific direction. Within the medium an input optical wave with unknown polarisation is coupled with the device. A programming circuit provides amplitude-phase-frequency modulation of the acoustic wave. The device provides a direct wave and two perpendicular diffracted waves of H,V polarisation, each bearing a modulation based on the input optical wave modulation and the acoustic wave modulation.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a short optical pulse generator including: a generator (P,B1) of optical pulses having a wavelength equal to λ/2 and a spectral width smaller than λ/3; a generator (P, B2) of optical pulses having a duration shorter than 10 picoseconds at a wavelength of λ/3; a device (RI) recombining the pulses from the generators; a parametric amplification device (OPA1) receiving, as an input, the output from the recombining device; a filter (F2) extracting, from the output of the amplification device, a band centered on a wavelength λ; a second harmonic generator (SH) receiving the output of the filter (F2) and generating a band centered on a wavelength λ/2; and a programmable device (DCDP2) enabling a time-based adjustment of the pulses corresponding to said bands such as to make it possible to generate a pulse having a wavelength equal to λ/3 and a duration lower than the period of the optical cycle.
Abstract:
L'invention a pour objet un dispositif pour la compensation de dispersion temporelle appliqué à la génération d'impulsions ultra brèves, comprenant : - deux réseaux (RA, RB) de diffraction optiques transparents, identiques et parallèles entre eux, fonctionnant sur le principe de la diffraction de Bragg, et, - deux prismes (PA, PB) identiques, placés tête-bêche, dans l'espace séparant les susdits réseaux de diffraction optiques,
sachant que les faces extérieures (FeA, FeB) des susdits prismes sont parallèles entre elles et font un angle (γ) non nul avec les faces des susdits réseaux de diffraction optiques.
Abstract:
The present invention is notably directed to methods and systems for generating a CEP-stable optical pulse of optical carrier frequency f i from input optical pulses, the input optical pulses having an optical carrier frequency f p and pulse duration T p . A birefringent medium, a non nonlinear medium, a dispersive optical system, a parametric device (DFG) are successively used to achieve the generation.
Abstract:
A device for the temporal shaping of the amplitude and phase of ultrashort pulses, comprising: - a birefringent waveguide 1 of main axis Δ consisting of a nematic liquid crystal 2 located between a photoconductive material 3 and a substrate 4, - two transparent electrodes, one of which 5 is located between said nematic liquid crystal 2 and said substrate 4, and the other 6 such that said photoconductive material 3 is located between said other electrode 6 and said nematic liquid crystal 2, and - projection optics 7 for projecting a programmable optical mask 8 onto said photoconductive material 3.