New fiber laser architecture with transform-limited nonlinear spectral compression

Author

Boscolo, Sonia ; Turitsyn, Sergei K. ; Finot, Christophe

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We numerically demonstrate a new fiber laser architecture supporting spectral compression of negatively chirped pulses in passive normally dispersive fiber. Such a process is beneficial for improving the energy efficiency of the cavity as it prevents narrow spectral filtering from being highly dissipative. The proposed laser design provides an elegant way of generating transform-limited picosecond pulses.

Keywords

chirp modulation; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre dispersion; optical filters; optical pulse compression; cavity; fiber laser architecture; laser design; narrow spectral filtering; negatively chirped pulses; passive normally dispersive fiber; transform-limited nonlinear spectral compression; transform-limited picosecond pulses; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; fiber lasers; nonlinear spectral compression; self-similar propagation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253902

Filename

6253902