Optical processing based on spectral line-by-line pulse shaping on a phase-modulated CW laser

We demonstrate optical processing based on spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of a frequency comb generated by phase modulating a CW laser and show various applications including CW-to-pulse conversion, width/wavelength tunable return-to-zero pulse generation, pulse-to-CW conversion, wavelength conversion, and microwave photonics. The correlations between optical spectra, time-domain waveforms, and RF spectra are quantitatively studied

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