Stable 80-GHz short pulse generation using the cascaded polarization-maintaining fiber loop mirrors

Author

Dong, Hao ; Wang, Qiang ; Sun, Hongzhi ; Dutta, Niloy K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Volume

17

Issue

7

fYear

2005

fDate

7/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1396

Lastpage

1398

Abstract

In this work, an optical short pulse generator is designed consisting of a pulse compressor and cascaded notch filter type repetition rate doublers. The performance characteristics such as pulsewidth and peak power as a function of design parameters are studied. The pulse compressor is optimized based on the simulation results. The 6-ps-wide pulses at 20-GHz repetition rate directly generated from mode-locked fiber laser are compressed to 1.25-ps-wide pulses. Using a set of polarization-maintaining fiber loop mirrors, the repetition rate is quadrupled and stable 1.45-ps-wide pulses at 80 GHz are achieved.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; laser stability; notch filters; optical fibre filters; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; 1.25 ps; 1.45 ps; 20 GHz; 6 ps; 80 GHz; cascaded mirrors; cascaded notch filter; fiber laser; fiber loop mirrors; mode-locked laser; optical pulse generator; polarization-maintaining mirrors; pulse compressor; repetition rate doublers; short pulse generation; stable pulse generation; Mirrors; Optical design; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Space vector pulse width modulation; Fiber laser; mode-locking; polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) loop mirror; soliton compression;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.848561

Filename

1453622