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
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;
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
