All-fibered high-quality low-duty cycle 20-GHz picosecond pulse source

Author

Finot, C. ; Fatome, J. ; Pitois, S. ; Millot, G.

Author_Institution

Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The current bandwidth limitations of optoelectronic devices do not enable the direct generation of pulses with temporal width below a few ps and actively mode-locked fiber lasers were found to be an efficient, but onerous option to overcome this limitation. As an alternative issue to conventional mode-locking operation, we propose here a new, passive and cost-effective approach allowing the generation of picosecond optical pulse trains with very low duty-cycle (around 1/15) at a repetition rate of 20 GHz.

Keywords

fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical pulse shaping; actively mode-locked fiber lasers; all-fibered picosecond pulse source; conventional mode-locking operation; picosecond optical pulse trains; Chirp modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Ordinary magnetoresistance; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386317

Filename

4386317