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An all-optical ultrawideband monocycle generator based on wavelength conversion in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and optical tunable delay in an optical delay line (ODL) is proposed and simulated. The system achieves optically switchable in pulse polarity and tunable in both the pulsewidth and radio frequency (RF) spectrum.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61501088, 61307088, and 61675040, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under grant ZYGX2014J006.
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Hu, Z., Xu, J. & Hou, M. Proposal for all-optical switchable and tunable ultrawideband monocycle generation utilizing SOA wavelength conversion and time delay. Photonic Sens 7, 66–71 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-016-0389-6
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