Tahvili, M., Latkowski, SylwesterORCID: 0000-0003-4464-4097, Leijtens, X., Wale, M, Landais, PascalORCID: 0000-0002-4807-0695, Smit, M. and Bente, E.A.J.M.
(2013)
Monolithically Integrated InP-based Optical Pulse Shaper.
In: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2013, 12–16 May 2013, Munich Germany.
ISBN 978-1-4799-0594-2
Spectral phase control of optical pulses is often required to generate short pulses, and an important application of a pulse shaper is spectral chirp/dispersion (pre-) compensation. In this paper, we present the pulse shaping/compression capability of a monolithically integrated optical pulse shaper. Chip fabrication has been carried out in a standardized generic photonic integration platform which is available in the framework of European FP7 project EuroPIC. A key capability of this platform is the active-passive integration scheme which allows direct integration of active components such as semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) with passive elements such as arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) and phase modulators (PMs) on a single photonic chip.