All-fiber source of 20-fs pulses at 1550 nm using two-stage linear-nonlinear compression of parabolic similaritons

Author

Kibler, B. ; Billet, C. ; Lacourt, P.A. ; Ferriere, R. ; Dudley, J.M.

Author_Institution

Univ. de Franche-Comte, Besancon

Volume

18

Issue

17

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1831

Lastpage

1833

Abstract

Parabolic pulses from a similariton amplifier at 1550nm are compressed using a two-stage fiber compressor employing linear compression in photonic bandgap fiber and soliton effect compression in highly nonlinear fiber. Precise optimization of the compressor design using frequency resolved optical gating allows the generation of minimally chirped pulses as short as 20fs. This duration corresponds to only four optical cycles of the underlying electric field at this wavelength

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; photonic band gap; 1550 nm; 20 fs; chirped pulse generation; frequency resolved optical gating; highly nonlinear fiber; parabolic pulse compression; photonic bandgap fiber; similariton amplifier; Design optimization; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Photonic bandgap fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Optical fiber amplifiers; solitons; ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.880728

Filename

1677628