Title :
Optical soliton propagation using 3 GHz gain-switched 1.3 μm laser diodes
Author :
Iwatsuki, Katsumi ; Takada, Akifumi ; Saruwatari, M.
Author_Institution :
NTT Labs., Kanagawa
fDate :
12/8/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
No-chirped high-peak-power optical pulses at a 2.6 GHz repetition rate from gain-switched 1.3 μm distributed feedback laser diodes were obtained using both linear fibre compression, and Raman amplification. Coupling these pulses into a dispersion-shifted single-mode optical fibre, the authors have demonstrated optical soliton propagation at a high repetition rate using the laser diodes
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; guided light propagation; nonlinear optics; optical communication; optical fibres; semiconductor junction lasers; solitons; stimulated Raman scattering; 1.3 micron; 2.6 to 3 GHz; DFB laser; Raman amplification; chirp-free pulses; distributed feedback laser diodes; gain switched semiconductor lasers; high repetition rate; high-peak-power optical pulses; linear fibre compression; optical soliton propagation; single-mode optical fibre;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
