Title :
Tunable coherent Raman soliton generation with a Tm-fiber system
Author :
Jiang, Jie ; Ruehl, Axel ; Hartl, Ingmar ; Fermann, Martin E.
Author_Institution :
IMRA America Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate wavelength tunable coherent Raman soliton generation in a Tm fiber amplifier seeded with a passively mode locked Tm fiber oscillator and subsequent octave spanning continuum generation in highly-nonlinear fibers.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; light coherence; optical fibre amplifiers; optical solitons; thulium; Tm; fiber amplifier; highly-nonlinear fibers; octave spanning continuum generation; passively mode locked fiber oscillator; wavelength tunable coherent Raman soliton generation; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Oscillators; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4