Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 3, 2026

Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
On the interrelations between an optical differentiator and an optical Hilbert transformer
1Photonics Research Centre, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore. eqnngo@ntu.edu.sg
Abstract:
We show analytically and numerically that a practically realizable first-order optical Hilbert transformer (OHT) can simultaneously function as a negative/positive first-order temporal optical differentiator (OD) in the stopband and a broadband ±90° phase shifter in the passbands. An integrated-optic OHT based on a four-tap finite impulse response filter is designed using the Remez iteration algorithm and is numerically verified.
Related Concept Videos
Integrator and Differentiator
An integrator within an op-amp circuit produces an output directly proportional to the integral of the input signal. This is achieved by replacing the feedback resistor in a typical inverting...
Differential Relays
Transformers
The iron core has a substantial relative permeability. Therefore, the magnetic field lines generated due to the current in one winding are almost entirely confined within the core, such that the same magnetic flux permeates each turn of both...
Transformers with Off-Nominal Turns Ratios
IR Spectrometers
Properties of Fourier Transform II
The Frequency Shifting property of Fourier Transforms highlights that a shift in the frequency domain corresponds to a phase shift in the time domain. Mathematically, if x(t) has...

