Title :
Fiber-based, soliton-tuned femtosecond optical source mid infrared spectral region
Author :
Bartels, Randy A. ; Winters, David ; Futia, Greg ; Schlup, Philip
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
A fiber-based compact source of mid-infrared ultrafast laser pulses is presented. A polarization-maintaining fiber amplifier provides the pump pulses, while the signal pulses are derived from the same source by soliton self-frequency shifting in the same fiber. Noise and jitter of the fiber pulses are characterized.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; light polarisation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical solitons; fiber-based femtosecond optical source mid infrared spectral region; polarization-maintaining fiber amplifier; soliton self-frequency shifting; soliton-tuned femtosecond optical source mid infrared spectral region; ultrafast laser pulses; Infrared spectra; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
