• DocumentCode
    1830215
  • Title

    Femtosecond pulses with tunable, high repetition rate generated from a CW laser without mode-locking

  • Author

    Dai, Yitang ; Xu, Chris

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    436-fs Pulses are generated by injecting a 33-ps pulse train, obtained from pulse carving a 1.55-mum CW DFB laser, into a time-lens loop. Largely-tunable repetition rate from 23 MHz to 400 MHz is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    distributed feedback lasers; optical pulse generation; CW DFB laser; femtosecond pulses; frequency 23 MHz to 400 MHz; largely-tunable repetition rate; pulse carving; pulse train; wavelength 1.55 mum; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Lenses; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Space vector pulse width modulation; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics; (060.2380) Fiber optics sources; (320.5520) Pulse compression; (320.7090) Ultrafast lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032858