Title :
Actively mode-locked fiber laser employing a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber for intracavity nonlinear pulse compression
Author :
Abedin, K.S. ; Kubota, F.
Author_Institution :
Commun. Res. Lab., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Actively mode-locked fiber laser, which employs polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF) with high nonlinearity and dispersion for intracavity nonlinear pulse compression is shown. The laser produced 1.26-ps pulses at 10-GHz-rate using PM-PCF of only 10-m-long.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical materials; optical pulse compression; optical solitons; photonic crystals; 1.26 ps; 10 GHz; 10 m; fiber lasers; intracavity nonlinear pulse compression; mode-locked lasers; nonlinear photonic crystal fiber; optical dispersion; optical polarisation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
