Title :
Integrated all optical fibre source of multigigahertz soliton pulse train
Author :
Chernikov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Kashyap, Rekha
Author_Institution :
Blackett lab., Imperial Coll., London, UK
Abstract :
A 59.1 GHz train of 2.2 ps solitons with low phase noise (<5*10-5) is generated by a novel, passive, all optical fibre source. The technique is based on transformation of a dual frequency beat signal generated by a 16 kHz linewidth erbium fibre DBR laser having a selectable and highly stable frequency separation, into a soliton train in a comblike dispersion profiled fibre, a novel fibre which uses conventional optical fibres.
Keywords :
distributed Bragg reflector lasers; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beam applications; laser frequency stability; light sources; optical dispersion; optical fibres; optical solitons; spectral line breadth; 2.2 ps; 59.1 GHz; DBR laser; EDFA; Er doped optical fibre; comblike dispersion profiled fibre; dual frequency beat signal; low phase noise; multigigahertz soliton pulse train; nonlinear optics; nonlinear propagation; optical fibre source; passive integrated source;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19931190
