Abstract
We investigate the relationship between an optical pulse shape and a time lens implemented by means of sinusoidal phase modulation. Based on this investigation, two schemes are proposed to obtain an optical frequency comb (OFC) with exceptionally high flatness and a large number of spectral lines by carving an optical pulse shape to result in a quasilinear chirp via a simple sinusoidal phase modulation technique. The first scheme utilizes an intensity modulator with a single-drive port or with dual-drive ports to carve a narrow pulse. The experimental results show very good spectral profiles with 38 OFC lines at 1.2-dB flatness and 53 lines at 1.5-dB flatness when the intensity modulator is combined with two and three phase modulators for sinusoidal phase modulation, respectively. The second scheme is implemented by replacing the intensity modulator by a dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulator (DP-MZM). In this case, we obtain 35 OFC lines at nearly perfect flatness of less than 1 dB and 53 lines at 1.5-dB flatness after combining the DP-MZM with two and three phase modulators, respectively.
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