Analysis of amplitude fluctuation and timing jitter performance of spectrally periodic Talbot filters for optical pulse rate multiplication

We analyze simultaneous amplitude fluctuation and timing jitter performance of a set of commonly believed equivalent spectrally periodic phase-only filters for implementing pulse repetition rate multiplication. Whereas amplitude noise and time jitter mitigation is observed in all cases, our analysis reveals different noise performance to that obtained with the classical Talbot filter implementation based on a single dispersive medium. Moreover, different noise improvements are achieved depending on the filter's spectral period and a mutual interaction between amplitude noise and timing jitter is also observed. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America