Influence of a Fabry–Perot etalon on a chirped optical pulse

✍ Scribed by Zhengmao Wu; Guangqiong Xia; Jianguo Chen; Lin Liu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-3992
• DOI: 10.1016/s0030-3992(01)00061-5

✦ Synopsis

Taking into consideration the fact that the output from a Fabry-Perot etalon is formed on the basis of the interference of the multi-re ected beams of the input pulse that enters the etalon, an analytical expression of the output pulse intensity has been derived for an input chirped Gaussian pulse passing through an etalon. Using the expression, the temporal width and the peak power of the output pulse is investigated. Results show that for a given etalon, the chirp factor and the width of the input pulse have intense e ects on the width and the peak of the output pulse.