Pedestal-free transform-limited femtosecond pulse generation at 10 GHz using a polarization maintaining dispersion decreasing fiber and dispersion imbalanced nonlinear loop mirror

Author

Tamura, K.R. ; Nakazawa, M.

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2001

Abstract

We report a polarization maintaining version of a pulse compressor based on a dispersion decreasing fiber (DDF) and a dispersion-imbalanced nonlinear optical loop mirror (DI-NOLM). The pulses at the DDF output are as short as 43 fs. Using post amplification at the DI-NOLM output, we obtained a 170 fs pedestal-free pulse train at an average power of 100 mW and a repetition rate of 10 GHz.

Keywords

mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse compression; time division multiplexing; 100 mW; 170 fs; 43 fs; average power; dispersion decreasing fiber; dispersion imbalanced nonlinear loop mirror; dispersion-imbalanced nonlinear optical loop mirror; fs pedestal-free pulse train; pedestal-free transform-limited femtosecond pulse generation; polarization maintaining dispersion decreasing fiber; polarization maintaining version; post amplification; pulse compressor; repetition rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6738-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.971161

Filename

971161