Title :
High energy, sub-picosecond pulse compression at 10 GHz using a fibre/fibre-grating pulse compressor
Author :
Tamura, K. ; Komukai, T. ; Yamamoto, T. ; Imai, T. ; Yoshida, E. ; Nakazawa, Masataka
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Syst. Lab., Ibaraki, Japan
fDate :
12/7/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors report a fibre/fibre-grating pulse compressor suitable for compressing high energy, high repetition rate picosecond pulses to sub-picosecond durations. Linearly chirped fibre gratings and an optical circulator are used for output chirp compensation. This scheme is not limited to wavelength regimes with anomalous dispersion in the fibre. A 10 GHz train of 7.1 ps pulses at 1548 nm was compressed to 720 fs, corresponding to a compression factor of ~10. At maximum power, the compressed pulses had 18 pJ energies and peak powers of 15 W
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical pulse compression; 10 GHz; 15 W; 1548 nm; 18 pJ; 720 fs; fibre/fibre-grating pulse compressor; high energy pulse compression; high repetition rate picosecond pulses; linearly chirped fibre gratings; optical circulator; output chirp compensation; sub-picosecond pulse compression;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19951472
