Picosecond pulse burst generation using cascaded Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in a chalcogenide As2Se3 fiber cavity

Author

Buttner, Thomas F. S. ; Kabakova, Irina V. ; Hudson, Darren D. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Author_Institution

Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

12-16 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The paper demonstrates a new compact approach for generating ultra-high frequency picosecond pulses based on an SBS frequency comb using only 40 cm of chalcogenide As₂Se₃ fiber. Bursts of pulses as short as 35 ps at 8 GHz repetition rate are obtained and an extinction ratio of over 60 %. The authors investigate the stability of the laser by measuring consecutive pulse bursts using a real time oscilloscope (RTSC).

Keywords

chalcogenide glasses; laser stability; optical fibres; optical pulse generation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; As₂Se₃; SBS frequency comb; cascaded Stimulated Brillouin Scattering; chalcogenide fiber cavity; extinction ratio; laser stability; picosecond pulse burst generation; real time oscilloscope; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0593-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800925

Filename

6800925